Many experts, with extensive knowledge of Construction Industry, take subjective decisions, related to verbal methods of decision making.
In an international perspective it seems most fruitful to apply a set of both dominantly verbal methods as practiced in Norway and somewhat more visual approaches used in other countries.
Based upon the results, the visual pragmatic effects of distance representation are analysed with the focus on how verbal methods of representing distance are applied to facilitate the viewer's appreciation of 'Three Distances' (i.e. high distance, level distance or deep distance) emphasised in Chinese landscape paintings.
Simple verbal methods perform well at excluding depression in the non-depressed but perform poorly at confirming depression.
However, several prior comparisons of imagery with verbal representations have consistently found imagery to have stronger effects on emotional outcomes, with verbal methods sometimes having paradoxical negative effects.
Anecdotally, colleagues are already noticing that the residents are attaining 'endoscopic comfort' sooner as a result of an awareness of our classification of verbal methods of teaching endoscopy.
However, several studies examined different verbal methods in the same sample and thus there were actually 1579 unique patients under study.
Information provision for patients needs to be improved and become less reliant on written and verbal methods which may be unsuitable for many patients.
We wished to identify different verbal methods in use, and develop a means of quantifying verbal teaching so that this may be used as a tool in future studies aimed at improving how we teach endoscopy.
In this study, through the use of the grounded theory method, we arrived at a classification of the various verbal methods that are used to teach endoscopy, that has excellent interobserver agreement that may form a baseline for future work directed at optimizing how endoscopy is taught verbally.
