Cardiovascular diseases, respiratory diseases, nervous system diseases.
Conditions
Interventions
This is an cross-sectional study without any intervention. This is an observational study to investigate the effects of diagnostic errors in inter-rater reliability for pattern differentiation and acu
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Sponsors
Centro Universitário Augusto Motta
Centro Universitário Augusto Motta
Eligibility
Age
18 Years to 65 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Adults; either gender; bachelor degree in any health-related course recognized by the National Ministry of Education, including biomedicine, nursing, physical therapy, speech therapy, physician, nutrition, dentistry, psychology, and occupational therapy; postgraduate training in acupuncture; signature of the informed consent form after reading about the objectives, potential risks and benefits for participating in this research.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Professionals with postgraduate training not registered at the respective professional council; clinical practice less than one year.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Higher interrater agreement for the cases simulated with correct diagnosis verified by the minimal diference of 10% in the agreement coefficient (kappa, iota) in comparison with the cases simulated with misdiagnosis.;Higher diagnostic performance of specialists for cases simulated with correct diagnosis as assessed by accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values with at least 10% different from the cases simulated with misdiagnosis. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Positive association between controlling variables (age, clinical practice period) and the diagnostic accuracy as assessed with the Spearman's correlation coefficient of at least 0.41. | — |
Countries
Brazil
Contacts
Public ContactArthur Ferreira
Centro Universitário Augusto Motta
Outcome results
None listed