Observing and analyzing movement quality (MQ) in patients with non-specific low back pain (NS-LBP) is important in the clinical reasoning of primary care physiotherapists and exercise therapists. However, there is no standardized form of assessment. Research question: which MQ domains are measured with …

Aims and Objectives: To analyse oral care delivery in one hospital through exploring experiences from both nurses’ and patients’ perspectives and examining patients’ oral health. Background: Oral health problems are associated with undernutrition and other general health outcomes. Although oral care …

Formative assessment has been rapidly gaining world-wide popularity due to its widely acknowledged potential to enhance student learning. However, change in education has often proved to be slow and impeded by many factors and studies show that formative assessment often fails to yield the promised results, …

Although there is consensus in the current literature that feedback plays a fundamental role tostudent performance and learning, there is debate about what makes it effective. Particularly,some assessment instruments, like the National Student Survey in the United Kingdom, revealthat evaluation and feedback …

AIM: To systematically review the available literature on the diagnostic accuracy of questionnaires and measurement instruments for headaches associated with musculoskeletal symptoms. DESIGN: Articles were eligible for inclusion when the diagnostic accuracy (sensitivity/specificity) was established for …

from the article: "While previous studies have stressed the importance of feedback delivered by experts, it is unclear whether students' oral presentation competence can be fostered through innovative technology for delivering feedback. This experimental study examined the effectiveness of a virtual …

Abstract Frailty syndrome (FS) is an independent predictor of mortality in cardiovascular disease and is found in 15-74% of patients with heart failure (HF). The syndrome has a complex, multidimensional aetiology and contributes to adverse outcomes. Proper FS diagnosis and treatment determine prognosis …

In children developmental disorders expresses themselves by a variable presentation of symptoms and frequent manifestation of comorbidity of a complex nature. In addition to the classification of a disorder, individualising diagnostics is a means to realize assessment and treatment that are fine-tuned …

Providing differentiated instruction (DI) is considered an important but complex teaching skill which many teachers have not mastered and feel unprepared for. In order to design professional development activities, a thorough description of DI is required. The international literature on assessing teachers’ …