A number of methods to measure professionalism have been described, including self-rating, peer and supervisor review, patient assessment, standardized patient encounters (e.g., Objective Structured Clinical Examinations and Standardized Patients), written examinations, response to clinical vignettes, survey tools, and portfolio development [ 4, 10, 20, 33, 38, 43- 46, 116, 117].
Of these participants, 23,632 participated in both the health questionnaire and the physical examination (response rate: 74.5 %), and 22,137 participated in the nutritional examination (response rate: 81.8 %) [ 22].
Among these, 789 women accepted to participate in the psychiatric examination (response rate 70.5%).
For disease measurable radiologically or by examination, response to therapy was defined in the following manner by standard WHO criteria.
The overall examination response rate for 6- to 19-year-olds in NHANES 1999 2004 was 85%% [ 22].
Among those, 753 (321 men, 432 women) accepted to take part in the psychiatric examination (response rate 63.4%).
Between 1988 and 2010, the response rates for the interview ranged from 78.4 to 86.0%; for the examination, response rates ranged from 75.4 to 80.0%.
Interview and examination response rates were 86%and78%8%, respectively, for NHANES III, 80%and77%7%, respectively, for NHANES 2005 2006, and 78%and75%5%, respectively, for NHANES 2007 2008.
The data for the study reported here stem from the third survey (1991 1994), when a total of 10 135 people completed a questionnaire and attended a health examination (response rate, 61%).
We also note that the NHANES interview and examination response rate for a similarly aged population in the NYC area in 2004 was only slightly higher, 58% (personal communication with the NHANES program), compared with the 55% response in the NYC HANES (response rates for blood collection component of the examination are slightly lower in both surveys).
We also noted that the national HANES interview and examination response rate for a population of similar age in the NYC area in 2004 was only slightly higher [58% (Porter K, NHANES program, personal communication)] than the 55% response rate in the NYC HANES.
