Ann Acad Med Singap
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Ann Acad Med Singap · Sep 2023
Development and validation of a new self-assessment tool to measure professionalism among medical students.
Professionalism is a key quality that medical students should possess, but it is difficult to define and assess. Current assess-ment tools have room for improvement. This study aimed to design and validate a self-assessment tool to assess professionalism among medical students. ⋯ MPAST is valid, reliable, practical, and is the first validated self-assessment tool to assess professional attributes and behaviours among medical students, to our knowledge.
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Major abdominal emergency surgery (MAES) patients have a high risk of mortality and complications. The time-sensitive nature of MAES necessitates an easily calculable risk-scoring tool. Shock index (SI) is obtained by dividing heart rate (HR) by systolic blood pressure (SBP) and provides insight into a patient's haemodynamic status. We aimed to evaluate SI's usefulness in predicting postoperative mortality, acute kidney injury (AKI), requirements for intensive care unit (ICU) and high-dependency monitoring, and the ICU length of stay (LOS). ⋯ SI is useful in predicting postopera-tive mortality at 1 month, 3 months, AKI, postoperative ICU admission and ICU LOS.