many patients fear about neurological disorders because of mistrust to their judgments. reality is that neurological system is one of the simplest systems, but unfortunately we discuss about it in a form that induce fear to people. suppose that an old person hospitalized for cerebro-vascular accident (cva) and increased intracranial pressure (icp). results of your assessment can increase patien...

Few recent issues in drug development and health systems management have generated more commentary, and more controversy, than health technology assessment (HTA). The keen interest in HTA stems from the high stakes involved. For regardless of differences in definition and application, it is clear that HTA brings together public and private interests in a process in which there are potentially w...

A knowledge framework for medical manual revision, competitive underwriting, accurate risk assessment, and precision decision making.

In this paper we present Community Assessment (COMAS), a trust-based assessment service that helps compute group opinion from the perspective of a specific community member. We apply COMAS in the context of communities of learners, and we compute the group opinion from the perspective of the teacher. Specifically, our model relies on teacher assessments, aggregations of student assessments and ...

Background: Various training methods such as lecture-based and media-aided methods are employed to train focused assessment with sonography for trauma (FAST) technique during internship period. The current study aimed at comparing the efficacy of lecture-based and CD-based approaches among medical interns in emergency wards. Methods: The current comparati...

This paper provides the information and resources on developing Web-based tests. First it discusses potentials, the benefits, limitations, thrills and agonies on implementing Web-based assessment in education and training. Then it examines and compares various methods and Web-based testing tools for creating Web-based tests. Finally, it provides reallife examples and demonstrations on creating ...

Antepartum cardiotocography (CTG) is the most frequently used method for fetal surveillance during labor. In highrisk-pregnancies antepartum fetal heart rate assessment can be used to predict fetal compromise. However, the false-positive rate can be as high as 60 % for various reasons. Higher sensitivity might be achieved either by longer recording (fetal deep sleep phase) or by adding ultrasou...

The objectives of this study were (a) to examine the writing performance of L2 learners on the level-specific tasks based on Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) and (b) to study the likely difference between students' self-assessed level of writing and those reported by raters. The study was conducted with 138 Iranian students at BA and MA levels in Alborz Institute of Higher Educatio...