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N Tennant

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PubMed2005

Interobserver reliability in evaluating postural stability between clinicians and posturography.

OBJECTIVES: To assess the interobserver reliability in assessing postural stability and to compare with results obtained by computerized posturography. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. SETTING: Balance clinic, teaching hospital. PARTICIPANTS: 81 patients attending with a primary complaint of imbalance. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Inter-rater reliability between two clinicians and the modified Clinical Test for the Sensory Interaction on Balance (mCTSIB) as assessed by the Neurocom VSR Balance Master platform. RESULTS: Inter-rater reliability scores were high (0.53-0.81) for all conditions of the mCTSIB except for the easiest, i.e. firm surface eyes open, where concordance levels were poor to fair. CONCLUSIONS: Overall there was good agreement between observers and the computerized mCTSIB.

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PubMed1990

To strike or not to strike? House-staff attitudes and behaviors during a hospital work action.

Work actions by house staff are an infrequent response to sometimes difficult working conditions, but they can have a notable effect on institutional cohesiveness and represent a challenge to traditional notions of medical ethics. To determine the extent of participation in a hospital-wide doctors' strike and factors associated with participation, we surveyed 432 house officers at a university-affiliated public hospital where a contract dispute had recently led to a 4-day work action. Of 257 respondents, 69% approved of the strike and 50% participated in it. Both strikers and nonstrikers agreed that quality of care and specific contract issues were important precipitants of the event. By logistic regression, factors independently associated with strike participation (P less than .05) included being unmarried, training in internal medicine or psychiatry, being in earlier stages of training, being assigned to an outpatient service at the time of the strike, holding a favorable view of physician activism, and perceiving nurses, faculty, peers, and the public to have favored the strike. These associations may provide a basis for understanding the individual and social determinants of house-staff strike activity.

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