Reliability of the welling scale (WS1) for rating temporal bone dissection performance

Laryngoscope

Volumn 117, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1803-1808

  Butler, Nancy N ^a,b   Wiet, Gregory J ^b  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONWIDE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Resident education; Simulation; Technical skills performance assessment; Virtual temporal bone dissection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISSECTION; EVALUATION; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; KAPPA STATISTICS; MASTOIDECTOMY; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEMPORAL BONE; WELLING SCALE;

CADAVER; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MASTOID; OTOLARYNGOLOGY; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; TEMPORAL BONE;

EID: 34848917869     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLG.0b013e31811edd7a     Document Type: Article

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