Translation theory focuses on how ideas and various representations of practices travel in time and space.
A representation of practice was used to create a context in which participants' discussion about students' work could be concrete.
JDPBRN is a consortium of dental practices with a broad representation of practice types, treatment philosophies and patient populations and it has a shared mission with the DPBRN, 14 now called the National DPBRN (http://NationalDentalPBRN.org).
The network has a wide representation of practice types, treatment philosophies, and patient populations, including diversity regarding race, ethnicity, gender, geography and rural/urban area of residence of both its practitioners and their patients.
The recruitment of just 5 12 patients/site may have been insufficient to ensure adequate representation of practice in each centre, especially given the wide diversity of patients and goals for treatment.
However, the students underwent a competency- based assessment which measures what they do in a controlled representation of practice, such as an OSCE, rather than a performance -based assessment, measuring what they do in actual professional practice [ 30] so their performance in assessment of patients with diabetes in the workplace may not be superior to that of the control group.
If social practices are affected by attempts to audit them then the picture generated is not only a poor representation of practice (at the very least the data is often out of date) but the assumed primary virtue of this information, its decontextualized nature, is undermined.
Pressed whether the punishment was adequate, he said it was a personnel matter, that the video had been taken out of context, and that it did not offer the "full representation of practices".
Block randomisation was used to enable balanced representation of practices in each of the Networks.
This may reflect the larger representation of practices from the Midlands and Eastern England where there are typically larger practice sizes.
