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The Lake Wobegon effect is real: All general surgery residents appear to be better than average [PDF]
Surgery in Practice and Science, 2022 Resident evaluations remain controversial. Metric systems are employed to objectify evaluations. Our institution adopted the question “Relative to all other trainees that I have supervised over my career, I place this individual's performance in the ...
Thomas Szabo Yamashita +7 more
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The Lake Wobegon Effect: Why Most Patients Are at Below-Average Risk [PDF]
Annals of Internal Medicine, 2015 This commentary discusses the paradoxical finding that most patients are at below-average risk and can expect to experience less-than-average benefits from a treatment.
David Kent, Andrew J Vickers
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The Lake Wobegon Effect: Are All Cancer Patients above Average? [PDF]
Milbank Quarterly, 2013 ContextWhen elderly patients face a terminal illness such as lung cancer, most are unaware that what we term in this article “the Lake Wobegon effect” taints the treatment advice imparted to them by their oncologists. In framing treatment plans, cancer specialists tend to intimate that elderly patients are like the children living in Garrison Keillor's
Wolf JH, Wolf KS.
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The Lake Wobegon Effect-Where Every Medicare Advantage Plan Is "Above Average". [PDF]
JAMA Health Forum, 2022 This JAMA Forum discusses the 5-star quality rating system for Medicare Advantage plans, the quality measures that are used to generate the ratings, and the increased payments disbursed as a result of the higher ratings.
Teno JM, Ankuda C.
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Commentary: "the Lake Wobegon effect, a natural human tendency to overestimate one's capabilities" (Wikipedia). [PDF]
Milbank Q, 2013 H aving read the article by Wolf and Wolf in this issue of The Milbank Quarterly, the oncologist part of me asks, “Where’s the beef?” This is typical care: Mrs. Wolf, an eightyyear-old former smoker but healthy woman, is found (serendipitously) to have a resectable lung cancer and is treated with a curative resection based on her physiological age ...
Smith TJ.
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Measuring strengths and weaknesses in dimensional psychiatry. [PDF]
J Child Psychol Psychiatry, 2020 Background The Extended Strengths and Weaknesses Assessment of Normal Behavior (E‐SWAN) reconceptualizes each diagnostic criterion for selected DSM‐5 disorders as a behavior, which can range from high (strengths) to low (weaknesses). Initial development focused on Panic Disorder, Social Anxiety, Major Depression, and Disruptive Mood Dysregulation ...
Alexander LM +3 more
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Programming Algorithms for Sacral Neuromodulation: Clinical Practice and Evidence-Recommendations for Day-to-Day Practice. [PDF]
Neuromodulation, 2020 Background In sacral neuromodulation (SNM), stimulation programming plays a key role to achieve success of the therapy. However to date, little attention has been given to the best ways to set and optimize SNM programming during the test and chronic stimulation phases of the procedure.
Lehur PA +7 more
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Employee recruiting and the Lake Wobegon effect [PDF]
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2003 Abstract Employers, educational institutions, and other organizations are often faced with the problem of selecting the most qualified candidate to fill an available position. To this end, many employers have adopted a tournament-like procedure consisting of an initial phase in which third-party “referees” are used to eliminate unqualified candidates,
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The lake wobegon effect reversed: Commentary on “the gesell assessment: Psychometric properties” [PDF]
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 1992 By now the “Lake Wobegon Effect” has become famous in public education. Taken from a description of Garrison Keillor’s mythical community, “where the women are strong, the men are good-looking, and all of the children are above average,” it has become a watchword for how tests can be used to distort achievement.
Samuel J Meisels
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Investing in entrepreneurs: The case of franchising
Managerial and Decision Economics, Volume 43, Issue 8, Page 3785-3794, December 2022., 2022 Whether meant to improve public policy, private lending, or personal choices by individuals, investing in successful entrepreneurs is essential. Successful entrepreneurs typically have high human capital. Investment in entrepreneurs who have lower human capital involves more risk. Research has shown that one type of entrepreneur, franchisees, typically
Steven C. Michael
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