Pedagosko i psiholosko testiranje i procjenjivanje spadaju među najvažnije doprinose znanosti o ponasanju nasem drustvu i pružaju temeljna i znacajna poboljsanja u odnosu na ranije postupke. Iako se ne može ustvrditi da su svi testovi dovoljno usavrseni niti da su sva testiranja razborita i korisna, postoji velika kolicina informacija koje ukazuju na ucinkovitost kvalitetnih instrumenata u onim situacijama u kojima je njihovo koristenje potkrijepljeno validacijskim podacima. Pravilna upotreba testova može dovesti do boljih odluka o pojedincima i programima nego sto bi to bio slucaj bez njihovog koristenja, a također i ukazati na put za siri i pravedniji pristup obrazovanju i zaposljavanju. Međutim, losa upotreba testova može dovesti do zamjetne stete nanesene ispitanicima i drugim sudionicima u procesu donosenja odluka na temelju testovnih podataka. Cilj Standarda je promoviranje kvalitetne i eticne upotrebe testova te uspostavljanje osnovice za ocjenu kvalitete postupaka testiranja. Svrha objavljivanja Standarda je uspostavljanje kriterija za evaluaciju testova, provedbe testiranja i posljedica upotrebe testova. Iako bi evaluacija prikladnosti testa ili njegove primjene trebala ovisiti prvenstveno o strucnim misljenjima, Standardi pružaju okvir koji osigurava obuhvacanje svih relevantnih pitanja. Bilo bi poželjno da svi autori, sponzori, nakladnici i korisnici profesionalnih testova usvoje Standarde te da poticu druge da ih također prihvate.

Standards for educational and psychological testing

How to ... be a reflective practitioner.

This new edition of Ann Bowling's well-known and highly respected text has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect key methodological developments in health research. It is a comprehensive, easy to read, guide to the range of methods used to study and evaluate health and health services. It describes the concepts and methods used by the main disciplines involved in health research, including: demography, epidemiology, health economics, psychology and sociology.The research methods described cover the assessment of health needs, morbidity and mortality trends and rates, costing health services, sampling for survey research, cross-sectional and longitudinal survey design, experimental methods and techniques of group assignment, questionnaire design, interviewing techniques, coding and analysis of quantitative data, methods and analysis of qualitative observational studies, and types of unstructured interviewing. With new material on topics such as cluster randomization, utility analyses, patients' preferences, and perception of risk, the text is aimed at students and researchers of health and health services. It has also been designed for health professionals and policy makers who have responsibility for applying research findings in practice, and who need to know how to judge the value of that research.

Research Methods in Health. Investigating health and health services

https://www.commed.vcu.edu/Chronic_Disease/2012/cochranrvwrschbias.pdf

The Cochrane Collaboration's tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials

国際生活機能分類(International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health: ICF)にみた福祉・保健・医療の専門職協働における連携に関する貢献と課題

International social care workers: Initial outcomes, workforce experiences and future expectations Phase I

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report on a part of a study examining the interrelationships between personalisation and safeguarding practice Specifically the authors aimed to examine how safeguarding practice is affected by the roll out of personalisation in adult social care, particularly when the adult at risk has a personal budget or is considering this Design/methodology/approach – A sample of annual reports from Adult Safeguarding Boards in England was accessed for content analysis covering the period 2009-2011 One part of this sample of local authorities was selected at random; the other authorities selected had been early adopters of personalisation The reports were analysed using a pro forma to collect salient information on personalisation that was cross-referenced to identify common themes and differences Findings – The authors found variable mentions of personalisation as part of the macro policy context reported in the annual reviews, some examples of system or process changes

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Did anyone notice the transformation of adult social care? An analysis of Safeguarding Adult Board Annual Reports

Despite good results of primary total knee arthroplasty (TKA), the number of revision total knee arthroplasties (rTKAs) is rising Proper implant position is essential, since malposition leads to worse clinical outcome In rTKA most anatomical landmarks have disappeared because of extensive bone loss, making it more difficult to adequately implant the knee prosthesis In primary TKA, computer-assisted surgery (CAS) leads to better prosthetic alignment than mechanical navigation guides Literature about the use of CAS in rTKA is scarce though, and the effect on rotational prosthetic alignment has not been investigated yet Hence the primary objective of this study is to compare rotational prosthetic alignment when using CAS in rTKA compared to a mechanical navigation guide Secondary objectives are to compare prosthetic alignment in the coronal and sagittal planes It is hypothesized that CAS leads to better rotational, coronal and sagittal prosthetic alignment when used during rTKA A prospective clinical intervention study with use of a historical control group will be conducted Forty-four patients with a minimum age of 18 to be admitted for CAS-rTKA between September 2012 and September 2015 will be included in the intervention group Forty-four patients with a minimum age of 18 who underwent rTKA with the use of a mechanical navigation guide between January 2002 and April 2012 will form the historical control group Both groups will be matched according to gender and type of revision prosthesis Rotational prosthesis alignment will be evaluated using a CT-scan of the knee joint Proper implant position is essential, since malposition leads to worse clinical outcome Several studies show a significantly positive influence of CAS on prosthetic alignment in primary TKA, but literature about the use of CAS in rTKA is limited The purpose of this study is thus to investigate the influence of CAS during rTKA on postoperative prosthetic alignment, compared to mechanical navigation guides Netherlands National Trial Register NTR3512

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The influence of computer-assisted surgery on rotational, coronal and sagittal alignment in revision total knee arthroplasty

Individual or personal budgets are part of a growing international trend to encourage greater choice and control over social care services at a time of financial austerity. The authors' evaluation of individual budgets found that levels of allocated resources reflected a range of factors, including informal or carer support and disability levels. Furthermore, individual budgets were found to be cost-neutral compared with conventional social care delivery.

Martin Stevens

Papers

International social care workers: Initial outcomes, workforce experiences and future expectations Phase I

Did anyone notice the transformation of adult social care? An analysis of Safeguarding Adult Board Annual Reports

The influence of computer-assisted surgery on rotational, coronal and sagittal alignment in revision total knee arthroplasty

The impact of individual budgets on the targeting of support: findings from a national evaluation of pilot projects in England

A depth of data