Script concordance tests: Guidelines for construction

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Fournier, Jean Paul ^a   Demeester, Anne ^b   Charlin, Bernard ^c  

^a Faculté de Médecine de Nice Sophia Antipolis   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RELIABILITY; SCRIPT CONCORDANCE TEST; VALIDITY; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 45249121206     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-8-18     Document Type: Article

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