Experience of introducing an electronic health records station in an objective structured clinical examination to evaluate medical students’ communication skills in Canada: a descriptive study

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https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/IFMDCC

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Questionnaire on Students' Communication Skills based on Electronic Medical Record developed on OpenLabyrinth: 7 items with 99 participants. The responses were on 1-5 scale.

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Data: EMSC_Kuan-chin_2023.csv

Code:

# Paper: https://jeehp.org/journal/view.php?doi=10.3352/jeehp.2023.20.22
# Dataset: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/IFMDCC

library(haven)
library(dplyr)
library(tidyr)
library(openxlsx)

df <- read.xlsx("jeehp-20-22-dataset1.xlsx")
df <- df %>%
  rename(id=OttawaU_ID) %>%
  select(id, starts_with("STN10"), -Stn1010)

df <- pivot_longer(df, cols=-id, values_to="resp", names_to = "item")

save(df, file="EMSC_Kuan-chin_2023.Rdata")
write.csv(df, "EMSC_Kuan-chin_2023.csv", row.names=FALSE)

[ben-domingue]

weird distribution of rseponses but seems like it is legit.

  1   2   3   4   5 
  1  53 199 337  95 

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send pr @KingArthur0205

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The "1"s represent not being empathetic at all for the patients. I guess it makes sense that less people would select that option.

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gotcha

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@ben-domingue PR created: https://github.com/ben-domingue/irw/pull/645.: )