A comparison of Rasch with Likert scoring to discriminate between patients' evaluations of total hip replacement surgery

The purpose of this study was to examine whether there are advantages in terms of outcome assessment of using Rasch methods of scoring the 12-item Oxford Hip Score (OHS) questionnaire over conventionally Likert scores. As part of a prospective cohort study of total hip replacements in five former regions of England the OHS was sent to patients pre-operatively, at 3 months and 1 year post-operatively. Post-operative data was collected on over 5000 cases. Based on the level of satisfaction with surgery, patients were divided into satisfied and dissatisfied. Analyses were performed to test the relative precision (RP) of Rasch scoring vs. conventionally Likert scores in discriminating the groups experiencing different level of satisfaction. Considerable gains in precision were achieved with Rasch scoring methods when groups were compared 3 and 12 months post-operatively. The results from the current study suggest that in some situations there may be substantial gains in measuring health related outcomes using Rasch-based scoring methods.     

利用Berthelot颜色法测定发酵液中铵离子的干扰排除

在利用Berthelot反应测定微生物发酵中铵离子浓度时,培养液中的亚硫酸钠严重干扰了测定结果。预先加入适量的次氯酸钠溶液处理样品能有效地排除这一干扰。对次氯酸钠的加入量、处理时间和待测样品的pH进行优化,结果表明:当次氯酸钠与亚硫酸钠的摩尔比为2∶1、处理时间>1 m in、样品处理前调pH<9.0时,测得发酵液中铵离子浓度,经离子色谱法对照测试验证.最大相对误差为2.3%,达到了理想的效果。     

我院医学硕士公共课程教学质量的评价与分析

采用特尔斐法制定医学硕士公共课程教学质量评价体系,组织军医进修学院2005年级硕士生进行评价。除政治与计算机应用之间、计算机应用与医学统计学之间、医学统计学与英语之间的评价得分差异无统计学意义外,其它各科目之间的评价得分差异均有统计学意义;课程满意率与课程评价得分呈线性相关。结果显示,采用医学硕士公共课程教学质量评价体系能够对教学质量进行有效评价,对今后教学工作的改进和教学质量的不断提高具有指导作用。     

浅谈医疗质量与计量管理

医学计量的管理体系是医院分级管理中的重要组成部分。医学计量是确保医院的计量器具的量值准确统一;是保证医疗质量的重要环节,是提高治疗效果的重要技术保证。本文就医院在计量中确保医疗质量的重要性浅谈自己的看法。     

检定间隔期中辐射计量器具的受控分析

通过时检定间隔期内辐射计量器具量值超差失准原因及受控状态统计分析，提出检定间隔期中应按计量器具稳定性情况和分级加权法确定的动态检定周期实施计量器具动态检定校准，以保证计量器具状态受控，确保医疗质量。     

Kalman滤波器在医用超声诊断设备声功率计量中的应用

介绍一种医用超声诊断设备声功率计量数据的处理方法。对同一台医用超声诊断设备的同一个换能器多次测量声功率，将测量的数据建立恰当的数学模型，应用Kalman滤波器算法对其进行处理，去除超声诊断设备及换能器本身的声功率输出波动和超声声功率计的测量不稳定误差，最后得到一个相对稳定、真实的超声声功率。经过Kalman滤波嚣处理的超声功率测量数据大大改善了超声功率的测量结果的离散性，与常用的均值处理方法相比，它的结果更能反映超声功率的真实情况，值得推广应用到其它计量数据的处理中。     

Measurement of aggregate risk with copulas

Summary When aggregating financial risk on a portfolio level, the specification of the dependence structure between the risk factors plays an important role. Promising parametric models are often based on a so-called copula approach. Case studies of market crashes suggest the application of concepts allowing for extremal dependence. We present a transformed copula as a new model that both fits the data and allows for exact prediction in the tails. It turns out that the new model improves benchmark models like the t- or Clayton copula with respect to risk measures like VaR or Expected Shortfall. By performing different goodness-of-fit tests, the quality of the estimation is examined.     

正态分布定量指标统计分析报表的SAS宏程序

为规范临床试验数据管理，简化程序并减少数据统计分析过程中的错误来源，我们编制了一些特定的SAS宏程序，可以直接输出临床试验正态分布的定量指标统计分析报表。     

益精补阳还五汤辅治开角型青光眼对其眼压及预后的影响

目的：研究益精补阳还五汤辅治开角型青光眼患者对其眼压控制及预后影响效果。

方法：选取我院2015-07/2017-07收治的开角型青光眼患者93例186眼。按照随机数字表法将所有患者分为两组。观察组47例94眼,给予马来酸噻吗洛尔滴眼液结合益精补阳还五汤辅助治疗; 对照组46例92眼,仅使用马来酸噻吗洛尔滴眼液治疗。观察比较两组患者治疗后临床疗效,治疗前后视力、眼压、视网膜中央动脉血流测定值、平均缺损范围、视野平均光敏度以及图像诱发视觉电位情况。

结果：观察组治疗后总有效率明显高于对照组(85.1% vs 63.0%)(P<0.01)。治疗后,观察组眼压明显低于对照组(P<0.01)。观察组治疗后视网膜中央动脉血流RI测定值明显低于对照组(P<0.01),PSA、EDV测定值明显高于对照组(P=0.011、<0.01)。观察组治疗后视野平均光敏度明显高于对照组(P=0.001),平均缺损范围明显少于对照组(P=0.011)。

结论：使用益精补阳还五汤辅治开角型青光眼临床疗效显著,可有效控制患者眼压水平,扩大视野范围,促进血流循环,改善预后。     

The challenge of pain assessment in children with cognitive disabilities: Features and clinical applicability of different observational tools

Children with cognitive disabilities are at greater risk of experiencing pain. It has been shown that this paediatric population often receive inadequate pain management. Pain may be very difficult to assess, especially in a defined subgroup with non‐communicating intellectual disability or severe cognitive disability. Accordingly, several observational pain assessment tools have been proposed to overcome this issue. Due to the absence of an ideal measurement tool, accurate pain assessment requires, after a case‐by‐case analysis, selecting the more appropriate tool or a variety of combined instruments. The aim of this work is to provide a comprehensive review of the pain assessment tools commonly used in cognitively impaired children. Critical discussion on features and clinical applicability may suggest how to overcome this difficult challenge. Furthermore, this review will help further research aiming to design new instruments and to improve already‐in‐use tools.