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Confirmatory analysis (SEM) supported the possibility of calculating a global score of communication between healthcare professionals bringing together the two dimensions related to interprofessionals' communication.
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The factor analysis of all the instruments together yielded a two-factor solution accounting for 67% of the total variance in the scores of communication skills (Table 5).
Whilst many studies report assessing more general communication skills in examinations [ 17], or using clinician rated scores of communication skills in ward or clinic settings [ 18], empathy more specifically is less frequently reported as being assessed.
Despite the small numbers in the POP and PON subgroups, in which the SPs' satisfaction did not match the observers' scoring of communication skills, the analysis of the SPs' reasons for their evaluation of the trainees' performance gave significant results.
In these consultations, in the judgement of experienced observers, a low score on communication skills items of the MAAS-Global is still accompanied by adequate professional performance.
Although the domains were originally constructed to form one index score of positive communication, Cronbach's alpha for a three-item scale was as low as 0.12.
At the end of a simulation a player receives a final score on communication skills.
The outcome variable of interest is the junior doctor performance in PGY1 measured using the JDAT, with the mean combined overall score (out of 40), the mean score for the Clinical Management subscale (out of 30) and the mean score for Communication skills subscale (out of 10).
*Motor FIM - sum of scores for: self care + sphincter control + mobility + locomotion †Cognitive FIM - sum of scores for: communication + social cognition Table 1 also presents a comparison of the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE II) scores in the first day of ventilation in the two study populations by total score and by three component sub-scores.
This approach, considering a low practice level score as a high sensitivity but low specificity test of whether a particular doctor in the practice may have a lower score in respect of communication, may be worthy of consideration, although determining reliable threshold scores for such a test would need data from a much larger sample than was available in this study.
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