Validating the use of smartphone-based accelerometers for performance assessment in a simulated neurosurgical task

Neurosurgery

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1982, Pages 57-64

  Ang, Wei Jie Jensen ^a   Hopkins, Michael Edward ^a   Partridge, Roland ^a   Hennessey, Iain ^b   Brennan, Paul Martin ^c   Fouyas, Ioannis ^c   Hughes, Mark Antony ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b ALDER HEY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acceleration; Accelerometer; Simulation; Technology

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ACCELEROMETER; ARTICLE; CONSULTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; MOBILE PHONE; NEUROSURGEON; NEUROSURGERY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SIMULATION; SMARTPHONE; VALIDATION STUDY; ACCELEROMETRY; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BIOMECHANICS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; LAMINECTOMY; LEARNING; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; TIME; WRIST; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; SIMULATION TRAINING; SURGICAL TRAINING;

ACCELEROMETRY; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; CELLULAR PHONE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MOTOR SKILLS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PHYSICIANS; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); QUESTIONNAIRES; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TIME FACTORS; WRIST;

EID: 84907875725     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: 15244040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0000000000000010     Document Type: Article

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