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Using Learning Outcome Measures to assess Doctoral Nursing Education
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2010
The structure and process for measuring student learning outcomes through customizable assessment rubrics is discussed and applied to a doctoral nursing education program.
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A Real-world What-Where-When Memory Test
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2017
The Real-World What-Where-When memory test is a novel episodic memory test, in which participants need to recall which objects have been hidden in which locations on which of two distinct occasions. It is easy to run and is sensitive to normal cognitive aging.
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Movement Retraining using Real-time Feedback of Performance
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2013
Retraining abnormal movement patterns following injury or disease is a key component of physical rehabilitation. Recent advances in technology have permitted accurate assessment of movement during a variety of tasks, with near instantaneous quantification of results. This provides new opportunities for modification of faulty movement patterns in real time.
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Predicting Reaction Outcomes
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2023
Kinetics describes the rate and path by which a reaction occurs. In contrast, thermodynamics deals with state functions and describes the properties, behavior, and components of a system. It is not concerned with the path taken by the process and cannot address the rate at which a reaction occurs. Although it does provide information about what can happen during a reaction process, it does not describe the detailed steps of what appears on an atomic or a molecular level. On the other hand,...
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Outcomes of Glycolysis
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2019
Nearly all the energy used by cells comes from the bonds that make up complex organic compounds. These organic compounds are broken down into simpler molecules, such as glucose. As a result, cells extract energy from glucose over many chemical reactions—a process called cellular respiration. Cellular respiration can occur aerobically (with oxygen) or anaerobically (without oxygen). In the presence of oxygen, cellular respiration starts with glycolysis and continues with pyruvate oxidation, the...
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They show whether observed benefits, harms, and practical effects persist when treatment is delivered across ordinary clinical environments rather than narrowly controlled study conditions. Because patients, clinicians, and care settings vary, researchers can examine outcomes such as complications, functional status, adherence, and healthcare use across a broader range of circumstances. This helps clarify how evidence translates into everyday practice.
Outcome data from routine care can include patients who are underrepresented in clinical trials, making it possible to assess whether results extend across more varied populations. Researchers can compare survival, complications, quality of life, or treatment adherence among patients receiving care in different settings. That broader perspective supports decisions that reflect actual clinical populations rather than only trial participants.
Patient-reported measures describe effects that may not be fully captured by clinical records, such as quality of life, functional status, or the practical burden of treatment. When considered alongside survival, complications, adherence, and healthcare use, they provide a more complete assessment of meaningful benefit. This combination helps evaluate whether care improves patients’ everyday experience, not only measurable disease outcomes.
Following outcomes over time reveals whether benefits, complications, adherence, and functional changes persist, improve, or emerge after treatment begins. Repeated information from records, registries, insurance data, or patient reports can connect care decisions with later consequences. This temporal view is especially relevant when judging long-term safety, quality of life, and sustained effects in routine practice.
Researchers draw on electronic health records, patient registries, insurance data, pragmatic trials, and patient-reported measures. Each source can contribute different information, including clinical events, treatment use, healthcare utilization, functional status, or quality of life. Together, these sources support evaluation across ordinary care environments and can provide evidence about outcomes in patients not fully represented in controlled research.
Selection depends on the clinical question and the type of benefit or harm being assessed. Researchers may track survival, complications, functional status, quality of life, treatment adherence, or healthcare use over time. Choosing outcomes that reflect both clinical effects and patients’ experiences allows a study to evaluate whether an intervention produces meaningful benefits in everyday care.
They inform evidence-based decisions when researchers need to understand comparative effectiveness, safety, or practical treatment performance across diverse care settings. Findings can support clinical choices, health policy, and ongoing assessment after treatments enter routine use. They also help identify whether an intervention delivers benefits that matter to patients outside the more restricted conditions of controlled research.