tailieunhanh - báo cáo hóa học: " Reduction in patient burdens with graphical computerized adaptive testing on the ADL scale: tool development and simulation"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí hóa học quốc tế đề tài : Reduction in patient burdens with graphical computerized adaptive testing on the ADL scale: tool development and simulation | Health and Quality of Life Outcomes BioMed Central Open Access Reduction in patient burdens with graphical computerized adaptive testing on the ADL scale tool development and simulation Tsair-Wei Chien1 2 Hing-Man Wu1 Weng-Chung Wang13 Roberto Vasquez Castillo4 and Willy Chou 1 Address Department of Rehabilitation Chi-Mei Medical Center Taiwan ROC 2Department of Hospital and Health Care Administration Chia-Nan University of Pharmacy and Science Tainan Taiwan ROC 3Department of Educational Psychology Counseling and Learning Needs Hong Kong Institute of Education Hong Kong and 4Director SILAIS Carazo Nicaragua Central America Email Tsair-Wei Chien - smile@ Hing-Man Wu - healthup@ Weng-Chung Wang - wcwang@ Roberto Vasquez Castillo - ravasquezc@ Willy Chou - smile@ Corresponding author fEqual contributors Published 5 May 2009 Received 14 February 2009 Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7 39 doi 1477-7525-7-39 Accepted 5 May 2009 This article is available from http content 7 1 39 2009 Chien et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background The aim of this study was to verify the effectiveness and efficacy of saving time and reducing burden for patients nurses and even occupational therapists through computer adaptive testing CAT . Methods Based on an item bank of the Barthel Index BI and the Frenchay Activities Index FAI for assessing comprehensive activities of daily living ADL function in stroke patients we developed a visual basic application VBA -Excel CAT module and 1 investigated whether the averaged test length via CAT is shorter than that of the traditional all-item-answered non-adaptive testing NAT .