ObjectiveTo analyze the research status of mini-clinical evaluation exercise (Mini-CEX) in medical and nursing education in the mainland of China, so as to provide a basis for optimizing medical and nursing teaching evaluation tools and promoting the reform of medical and nursing personnel training mode.MethodsPubMed, Embase, Wanfang, CQVIP, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, and China Biomedical Literature Database were searched. The key words were “mini-clinical evaluation exercise” or “mini-CEX” or “CEX” or “mini clinical exercise evaluation”. The languages were limited to Chinese and English. The address of the first author was in the mainland of China. The retrieval time was from the establishment of the databases to December 31st, 2020. The literature was analyzed bibliometrically after screening and duplicate removal.ResultsA total of 536 articles were included for analysis and summary. The articles originated from 28 provincial-level administrative divisions in China, among which Shanghai, Xinjiang, Guangxi, Liaoning, and Guangdong were the top five in terms of the number of papers published. The annual number of papers published exceeded 60 in 2017, and reached 112 in 2019 and 113 in 2020, respectively. A total of 397 hospitals and universities contributed to the literature, among which 49 institutions published more than 2 papers. The maximum number of articles published by a same author was 5. There were 530 journal papers published in 169 journals. Only 228 articles (42.54%) were supported by funds, and the research type was mainly experimental and quasi experimental research (56.71%). Under the key words co-occurrence network analysis, a total of 321 nodes and 1 013 connections were obtained, with an average of 3.21 connections per node. In addition to “mini-CEX” and “mini-clinical exercise evaluation”, the most prominent research directions were “clinical teaching” “standardized training” “resident” “scenario simulation” and “clinical ability”.ConclusionsThe number of mini-CEX-related medical and nursing articles is increasing year by year, but the distribution of research areas and institutions is uneven, the research quality needs to be improved, the application scope and research types need to be enriched, and the research content needs to be expanded. In the future, teachers and research teams of medical colleges and universities should be mobilized to apply Mini-CEX teaching method to the cultivation of medical and nursing talents in a whole and continuous way, so as to further standardize the localization application of mini-CEX in the mainland of China, and promote the in-depth development of formative evaluation of medical education.
Objective To evaluate the performance of i3000 direct chemiluminescence detection of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antigen and antibody (Ag/Ab) screening assay (Maccura), compared with E170 electrochemiluminescence method (Roche, Elecsys® HIV Combi PT assay) and IS1200 indirect chemiluminescence method (Maccura). Methods Ten HIV seroconversion panels and 11 p24 antigen positive samples from West China Hospital of Sichuan University from April to December 2017 were used to evaluate the sensitivity of those three assays. A total of 351 samples were collected for consistency evaluation, including 350 HIV Ag/Ab test samples (200 HIV-1 positive plasma samples and 150 HIV 1+2 negative plasma samples) from West China Hospital of Sichuan University from April to December 2017, and one commercial HIV-2 sera. A total of 98 interfere samples for HIV testing were collected from West China Hospital of Sichuan University from April to December 2017. Results In the sensitivity evaluation, there were 63 samples from the 10 seroconversion panels, in which Roche E170 detected 25 samples, Maccura i3000 detected 23 samples, and Maccura IS1200 detected 22 samples; Maccura i3000 and Roche E170 assays detected all the p24 antigen positive samples (11, 100%), while Maccura IS1200 only detected 10 samples. In the consistency evaluation, Maccura i3000 had nice consistency with both Roche E170 and Maccura IS1200 (kappa>0.9, P<0.001). In the interference evaluation, there were two false positives in Maccura i3000 detection, one case of rheumatoid arthritis and one case of syphilis. Conclusion In addition to high throughput and good consistency, Maccura i3000 direct chemiluminescence reagent has high sensitivity and a short window period, which can meet clinical needs.
Objective To summarize the evaluation methods of postoperative healing of supraspinatus tendon tear in recent years, in order to provide reference for clinic. Methods CNKI, Wanfang, PubMed, and Foreign Medical Literature Retrieval Service (FMRS) databases were used to search the literatures between 2005 and 2022. The literature related to the diagnosis and postoperative healing of supraspinatus tendon tear was included. Finally, 50 articles were reviewed. ResultsSupraspinatus tendon tear is a common shoulder disease. Physical examination, clinical score, and imaging examination are used to predict and evaluate the postoperative healing. Among them, physical examination and clinical score are non-invasive and the most economical methods, but their accuracy and sensitivity are lower than imaging examination, so they can only be used as auxiliary methods. The acromio-humeral distance (AHD) and upward migration index (UMI) measured by X-ray films can directly reflect the change of supraspinatus tendon thickness, but they are impossible to distinguish whether there is tear or not. Ultrasound and MRI are the main methods for the clinical diagnosis of supraspinatus tendon tear, but the commonly used MRI sequence can not accurately judge the internal healing of the tendon. Shear wave elastrography (SWE) and ultrashort-echo-time (UTE) techniques are the latest research directions in recent years, but different studies have shown opposite conclusions on the application of SWE technique. This conclusion shows that the principle of SWE technique and its relationship with tendons need to be further studied. UTE technique has good clinical effect, and the T2* value obtained by UTE technique is more accurate than that of traditional Sugaya typing, but there are still few research samples. Conclusion AHD and UMI measured by X-ray film and T2* value measured by UTE technique can be used as effective methods for evaluating the healing of supraspinatus tendon tear after repairing, and can be used as a follow-up evaluation method combined with physical examination and clinical score for patients with supraspinatus tendon tear.
The clinical comprehensive evaluation of drugs is a fundamental work that promotes drugs return to clinical value and it has become one of the most important clinical pharmacy researches in recent years. The existing literatures focuses on the construction of clinical comprehensive evaluation index system or the quantification of index value. But, there is relatively little literatures about the value integration method, which may lead to the suboptimal scheme is selected as the optimal scheme. Therefore, this study summarizes various comprehensive value integration methods from the aspects of background, principles and applicable situations, to provide methodological references for clinical comprehensive evaluation in China.
Artificial intelligence has been extensively applied in healthcare services recently, and clinical decision support systems driven by artificial intelligence are one of the applications. Early-stage clinical evaluation of artificial intelligence (AI)-based clinical decision support systems lies between preclinical development (in silico), offline validation, and large-scale trials, but few AI-related clinical studies have addressed human factors evaluations and reported the implementation environment, user characteristics, selection process and algorithm identification of AI systems. In order to bridge the development-to-implementation gap in clinical artificial intelligence and to promote the transparent and standardized reporting of early-stage clinical studies of AI-based decision support systems. A reporting guideline for the developmental and exploratory clinical investigations of decision support systems driven by artificial intelligence (DECIDE-AI) was published in 2022. This paper aimed to interpret the background, development process and key items of the DECIDE-AI guideline and promote its understanding as well as dissemination in China.