CUSUM analysis to assess competence: What failure rate is acceptable?

Clinical Teacher

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 257-261

  Sivaprakasam, Jai ^a   Purva, Makani ^a  

^a HULL AND EAST YORKSHIRE HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIOLOGY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ANESTHESIOLOGY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 78649646541     PISSN: 17434971     EISSN: 1743498X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1743-498X.2010.00386.x     Document Type: Article

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