BACKGROUND A third of patients with schizophrenia are out of contact with secondary services. Many of these patients receive maintenance medication as depot antipsychotics from practice nurses, most of whom have negligible training in mental health. AIM To examine the impact of a structured assessment on the process of care and clinical status of schizophrenia patients by practice nurses who ...

This paper describes three instructional practices in the context of lecture and laboratory courses in Digital Signal Processing. The three concepts are: (1) In the course development process, articulate learning outcomes associated with each section meeting, then develop assessments for each learning outcome prior to developing instructional material for the course, and then, and only then, pr...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether doctors' global assessments of treatment effects agree with patients' global assessments. DESIGN Survey of trials included in systematic reviews of treatments for diverse conditions. DATA SOURCES Cochrane database of systematic reviews. Data extracted Data on patients' global assessments and on doctors' global assessment for the same treatment against the same c...

the video quality assessment must be adapted to the human visual system, which is why researchers have performed subjective viewing experiments in order to obtain the conditions of encoding of video systems to provide the best quality to the user. the objective of this study is to assess the video quality using image features extraction without using reference video. rmse values and processing ...

BACKGROUND The Cochrane risk of bias tool is commonly criticized for having a low reliability. We aimed to investigate whether training of raters, with objective and standardized instructions on how to assess risk of bias, can improve the reliability of the Cochrane risk of bias tool. METHODS In this pilot study, four raters inexperienced in risk of bias assessment were randomly allocated to ...