- Title
- Psychometric evaluation of a direct observation of procedural skills assessment tool for ultrasound-guided regional anaesthesia
- Creator
- Watson, M. J.; Wong, D. M.; Kluger, R.; Chuan, A.; Herrick, M. D.; Ng, I.; Castanelli, D. J.; Lin, L.; Lansdown, A. K.; Barrington, M. J.
- Relation
- Anaesthesia Vol. 69, Issue 6, p. 604-612
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/anae.12625
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- Assessment tools must be investigated for reliability, validity and feasibility before being implemented. In 2013, the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists introduced workplace-based assessments, including a direct observation of a procedural skills assessment tool. The objective of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of this assessment tool for ultrasound-guided regional anaesthesia. Six experts assessed 30 video-recorded trainee performances of ultrasound-guided regional anaesthesia. Inter-rater reliability, assessed using absolute agreement intraclass correlation coefficients, varied from 0.10 to 0.49 for the nine individual nine-point scale items, and was 0.25 for a 'total score' of all items. Internal consistency was measured by correlation between 'total score' and 'overall performance' scale item (r = 0.68, p < 0.001). Construct validity was demonstrated by the 'total score' correlating with trainee experience (r = 0.51, p = 0.004). The mean time taken to complete assessments was 6 min 35 s.
- Subject
- psychometric evaluation; anaesthesia; ultrasound; assessment tools
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1293509
- Identifier
- uon:18617
- Identifier
- ISSN:0003-2409
- Rights
- This is the accepted version of the following article: Watson, M. J.; Wong, D. M.; Kluger, R.; Chuan, A.; Herrick, M. D.; Ng, I.; Castanelli, D. J.; Lin, L.; Lansdown, A. K.; Barrington, M. J. “Psychometric evaluation of a direct observation of procedural skills assessment tool for ultrasound-guided regional anaesthesia”, Anaesthesia Vol. 69, Issue 6, p. 604-612 (2014), which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/anae.12625
- Language
- eng
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