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Core self-evaluations and job performance: The role of the perceived work environment.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Using trait activation theory as a framework, the authors examined the moderating role of two situational variables—perceptions of organizational politics and perceptions of leader effectiveness—on the relationship between core self-evaluations and job performance. Results from two samples (N = 137 and N = 226) indicate that employee perceptions of their work environment moderated the relationship between their core self-evaluations and supervisor ratings of their performance. In particular, those with higher core self-evaluations received higher performance ratings in environments perceived as favorable than in enviro...
Source: Journal of Applied Psychology - November 17, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kacmar, K. Michele; Collins, Brian J.; Harris, Kenneth J.; Judge, Timothy A. Source Type: journals

The five-factor model of personality and managerial performance: Validity gains through the use of 360 degree performance ratings.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study investigated the usefulness of the five-factor model (FFM) of personality in predicting two aspects of managerial performance (task vs. contextual) assessed by utilizing the 360 degree performance rating system. The authors speculated that one reason for the low validity of the FFM might be the failure of single-source (e.g., supervisor) ratings to comprehensively capture the construct of managerial performance. The operational validity of personality was found to increase substantially (50%–74%) across all of the FFM personality traits when both peer and subordinate ratings were added to supervisor ratings ac...
Source: Journal of Applied Psychology - November 17, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Oh, In-Sue; Berry, Christopher M. Source Type: journals

NHS performance ratings 2008/09Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Care Quality Comission have published performance ratings for all 392 NHS trusts in England. There assessment, also known as the ‘annual health check’ shows big improvements for patients. More people are: seen in A&E within four hours receiving treatment within eighteen weeks of referral screened for Chlamydia. It also shows a reduction in MRSA and Clostridium difficile. Overall, our ratings for 2008/09 show the NHS: is performing well on quality has significantly improved its financial management. However, there are concerns about: the 20 trusts rated weak on quality, particularly thos...
Source: NHS Networks - October 16, 2009 Category: UK Health Source Type: organizations

Royal College Of Nursing Praises Improvement In The NHS, But Worst Performers Must Do More, UKEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) responded to the latest NHS performance ratings, published by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). These are the final ratings to be published by the CQC before all trusts will have to meet new registrations requirements in order to continue to deliver care. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 16, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Nursing / Midwifery Source Type: news

Patients Have Right To Know Why Some Trusts Consistently Perform Poorly - The King's Fund, UKEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Commenting on the publication of performance ratings for all 392 NHS trusts in England, The King's Fund chief executive, Niall Dickson, said: 'Overall this report reveals an NHS that appears to be performing well. The fact that this year more trusts are rated excellent and good in both quality and financial management is encouraging. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 15, 2009 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Public Health Source Type: news

Care Quality Commission publishes NHS performance ratings (Annual Health Check) for England 2008/09Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Source: Care Quality Commission (CQC) Area: News The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published its annual health check (2008-09), listing performance ratings for all 392 NHS trusts in England. The Commission assesses the quality of services and of financial management. For quality, 15% of trusts were rated as "excellent", 47% "good", 33% "fair" and 5% "weak". Last year's ratings were 26%, 35%, 34% and 6% respectively. On financial management, 26% were rated "excellent", 45% "good", 26% "fair" and 3% "weak". Last year's ratings were 24%, 37%, 34% and 5% respectively. The Commission expressed concern about the 20 tr...
Source: NeLM - News - October 14, 2009 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: organizations

Can Recruiting Rankings Predict the Success of NCAA Division I Football Teams? An Examination of the Relationships among Rivals and Scouts Recruiting Rankings and Jeff Sagarin End-of-Season Ratings in Collegiate FootballEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationships among National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I football teams' 2002 recruiting rankings from the Rivals (RIV) and Scouts (SCO) recruiting services and the Jeff Sagarin end-of-season performance ratings from 2002-2006. The RIV and SCO recruiting services included rankings for 100 common NCAA Division I football teams for the 2002 recruiting season. Each recruiting service included a total point system rating (TOTPTS) and average star rating (AVESTAR). The Jeff Sagarin NCAA football ratings system was chosen as an indicator of the teams' perf...
Source: Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports - October 14, 2009 Category: Sports Medicine Tags: Football Source Type: journals

Evaluating frame-of-reference rater training effectiveness using performance schema accuracy.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Frame-of-reference training has been shown to be an effective intervention for improving the accuracy of performance ratings (e.g., Woehr & Huffcutt, 1994). Despite evidence in support of the effectiveness of frame-of-reference training, few studies have empirically addressed the ultimate goal of such training, which is to teach raters to share a common conceptualization of performance (Athey & McIntyre, 1987; Woehr, 1994). The present study tested the hypothesis that, following training, frame-of-reference–trained raters would possess schemas of performance that are more similar to a referent schema, as compared with co...
Source: Journal of Applied Psychology - August 25, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gorman, C. Allen; Rentsch, Joan R. Source Type: journals

Implications of Virtual Management for Subordinate Performance Appraisals: A Pair of Simulation StudiesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article shifts the focus of prior research examining virtual work to investigate how supervisors who work virtually use subordinate performance information. Drawing insights from several research streams, in Study 1, we propose that supervisors who work virtually bias performance ratings in the direction of information that is observed directly in the office, rather than that which is received when working virtually. In Study 2, we replicate and extend these results to show that this bias is independent of the level of performance information received. Results also indicate that, for high-performing workers, performan...
Source: Journal of Applied Social Psychology - July 5, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Timothy D. Golden, Janet L. Barnes-Farrell, Peter B. Mascharka Tags: Original Articles Source Type: journals

Holding managers accountable for their hiring decisionsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Imagine you're the CEO of a hypothetical mutual fund company with 10 different mutual funds and 40 managers of those funds. Now, imagine you didn't know which manager had bought which stocks. Absurd, right? You would never be able to make adjustments as far as which managers were good stock pickers and which ones were not. As absurd as this scenario is, there's an equivalent situation in most organizations in that managers are not held accountable for which employees they decide to "invest" in by hiring them. It's very rare that organizations hold hiring managers accountable for their hiring decisions, although the de...
Source: Psychology Today Work Center - March 25, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ben Dattner Tags: Work Source Type: consumer

Self–other agreement in job performance ratings: A meta-analytic test of a process model.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This meta-analysis explores agreement in self- and supervisory ratings of job performance (k = 128 independent samples). It suggests a 3-stage model of the rating process and reviews the empirical evidence for the relevance of each of these 3 stages to an understanding of agreement in ratings. The proposed 3-stage model serves as the guiding rationale for the examination of an extensive set of variables that moderate rater agreement. Results are reported for 2 indicators of rater agreement (correlational and mean-level agreement). Self-supervisor ratings yielded an overall correlation of .22 (? = .34; k = 115; n = 37,752)....
Source: Journal of Applied Psychology - March 9, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Heidemeier, Heike; Moser, Klaus Source Type: journals

Refining the evaluation of operating room performanceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study continues examination of the Southern Illinois University (SIU) operative performance rating system (OPRS) for previously unreported factors that may influence reliability, accuracy, and interpretability of results. (Source: Journal of Surgical Education)
Source: Journal of Surgical Education - March 1, 2009 Category: Surgery Authors: M.J. Kim, R.G. Williams, M.L. Boehler, J.K. Ketchum, G.L. Dunnington Tags: Association of the Program Directors in Surgery Source Type: journals

Examination and Measurement of Halo Via Curvilinear Regression: A New Approach to Halo1Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Much disagreement and confusion has surrounded the nature of the relationship between halo and performance rating accuracy. Traditionally, the relationship has been assumed to be linear (Cooper, 1981), but Fisicaro (1988) proposed that the relationship between halo and performance rating accuracy is, instead, curvilinear. Using the halo index suggested by Balzer & Sulsky (1992), the results of the present study provided empirical evidence to support Fisicaro's proposal. Future research examining the relationship between halo and accuracy should consider the use of quadratic models, instead of linear ones. For the practitio...
Source: Journal of Applied Social Psychology - February 10, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Adrian Thomas, Jerry K. Palmer, Jack M. Feldman Tags: Original Articles Source Type: journals

Effects of Caloric Restriction and Overnight Fasting on Cycling Endurance Performance.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Ferguson, LM, Rossi, KA, Ward, E, Jadwin, E, Miller, TA, and Miller, WC. Effects of caloric restriction and overnight fasting on cycling endurance performance. J Strength Cond Res 23(2): xxx-xxx, 2009-In addition to aerobic endurance and anaerobic capacity, high power-to-weight ratio (PWR) is important for cycling performance. Cyclists often try to lose weight before race season to improve body composition and optimize PWR. Research has demonstrated body fat-reducing benefits of exercise after fasting overnight. We hypothesized that fasted-state exercise in calorie-restricted trained cyclists would not result in perfor...
Source: Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research - February 4, 2009 Category: Sports Medicine Authors: Ferguson LM, Rossi KA, Ward E, Jadwin E, Miller TA, Miller WC Tags: J Strength Cond Res Source Type: journals

Getting even for customer mistreatment: The role of moral identity in the relationship between customer interpersonal injustice and employee sabotage.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Research on the "dark side" of organizational behavior has determined that employee sabotage is most often a reaction by disgruntled employees to perceived mistreatment. To date, however, most studies on employee retaliation have focused on intra-organizational sources of (in)justice. Results from this field study of customer service representatives (N = 358) showed that interpersonal injustice from customers relates positively to customer-directed sabotage over and above intra-organizational sources of fairness. Moreover, the association between unjust treatment and sabotage was moderated by 2 dimensions of moral identity...
Source: Journal of Applied Psychology - November 24, 2008 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Skarlicki, Daniel P.; van Jaarsveld, Danielle D.; Walker, David D. Source Type: journals

Long-Term Outcomes of Physician Peer TeachingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Research conducted in 10 cities assessed long-term pediatric asthma outcomes from a peer teaching intervention for physicians to improve their asthma-related clinical and counseling skills. Hypotheses were better outcomes for patients, symptom reduction, less health care use, and enhanced view of the physician. Peers trained 53 intervention group pediatricians (seeing 418 patients); 48 pediatricians (seeing 452 patients) were controls. Patients provided baseline and 2-year follow-up data, collected by telephone interview and from medical records. Intent-to-treat analyses used Poisson regression and general estimation equat...
Source: Clinical Pediatrics - November 5, 2008 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Clark, N. M., Cabana, M., Kaciroti, N., Gong, M., Sleeman, K. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

The Annual Health Check: Performance Ratings 2007/8 (Healthcare Commission)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Healthcare Commission has published performance ratings for all NHS trusts in England. These are based on the results of the 2006/07 annual health check of NHS trusts, the most comprehensive assessment of NHS performance. In its second year, the ann... (Source: Clinical Governance Sitewide RSS Feed)
Source: Clinical Governance Sitewide RSS Feed - October 23, 2008 Category: UK Health Tags: Key Elements/Clinical Governance - General/Key Documents Source Type: organizations

Healthcare Commission Publishes NHS Ratings Showing Major Improvement In Performance, UKEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Healthcare Commission today (Thursday) publishes the annual NHS performance ratings showing that trusts are improving the quality of services and managing money more effectively. The independent watchdog has given all 391 NHS trusts in England a rating in its third annual health check, the most comprehensive assessment of the NHS ever undertaken. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 16, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Public Health Source Type: news

NHS Performance Ratings Set To Reveal Whether Services Are Improving, UKEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Healthcare Commission will this week unveil performance ratings for every NHS trust in England, showing whether organisations have improved their quality of services and made better use of their resources over a three year period. The Commission's annual health check is the most comprehensive assessment of performance ever undertaken in the NHS. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 14, 2008 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Public Health Source Type: news

Trust performance ratings to be published on ThursdayEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A detailed picture of whether English NHS trusts are improving should emerge this week when the Healthcare Commission's third annual review is released. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - October 13, 2008 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Trust performance ratings to be published on ThursdayEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A detailed picture of whether English NHS trusts are improving should emerge this week when the Healthcare Commission's third annual review is released. (Source: Healthcare Republic News)
Source: Healthcare Republic News - October 13, 2008 Category: UK Health Source Type: news

Bias in Performance Ratings: Clarifying the Role of Positive Versus Negative EscalationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: Human Performance)
Source: Human Performance - October 1, 2008 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Greguras, Gary J.Slaughter, Jerel E. Source Type: journals

Asian Variability in Performance Rating Modesty and Leniency BiasEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
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Source: Human Performance - July 1, 2008 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sackett, Paul R.Barron, Laura G. Source Type: journals

Healthcare Commission plans for 2008/09 assessment of NHS trustsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Healthcare Commission has published its plans for the 2008/09 annual health check of NHS trusts. The overall structure of the health check is largely unchanged for 2008/09, with with each NHS trust again receiving an overall performance rating in two parts; one for quality of services and one for quality of financial management. The Commission will carry out the 2008/09 health check until the end of the assessment year in April 2009 and the Care Quality Commission, the new regulator for health and social care, is expected to publish the results in autumn 2009. Changes in the 2008/09 annual health check include: • Gr...
Source: NeLM Headline News - June 19, 2008 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Tags: Clinical governance / audit, Hospital trusts, Primary Care Trusts, Commission for Healthcare Audit & amp; Inspection (CHAI), National Health Service Source Type: organizations

Deliberate practice predicts performance over time in adolescent chess players and drop-outs: A linear mixed models analysis.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study provides longitudinal support for the monotonic benefits assumption of deliberate practice, by showing that over chess players' careers, deliberate practice has a significant effect on performance, and to the same extent for chess players of different ultimate performance levels. The results of this study are not in line with critique raised against the deliberate practice theory that the factors deliberate practice and talent could be confounded. PMID: 18433518 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: British Journal of Psychology)
Source: British Journal of Psychology - April 22, 2008 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: de Bruin AB, Smits N, Rikers RM, Schmidt HG Tags: Br J Psychol Source Type: journals

KLAS Publishes Report On Medication Administration Barcoding At The Point Of ContactEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In this report, KLAS set out to discover the changes occurring in the marketplace as well as the successes and struggles healthcare providers were encountering. The investigation included vendor performance ratings from their healthcare providers, bar-code technology implementation time, management reports and interfaces. (Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today)
Source: IT / Internet / E-mail News From Medical News Today - January 10, 2008 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news

Help direct our futureEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
-NHS Direct wants to become the first national organisation to apply for Foundation Trust status - and needs your help! Since 1997, NHS Direct has provided confidential health advice and information around the clock. Becoming a Foundation Trust is the way forward, as it will offer NHS Direct the opportunity to work more closely with its users - you! You will be able to play a vital role in developing NHS Direct's services, and actively shape its future. So what are Foundation Trusts?What is a Foundation Trust?Foundation Trusts (also known as Public Benefit Corporations) are a completely new kind of organisation. They are s...
Source: NHS Direct News and health alerts - December 10, 2007 Category: Consumer Health Advice Source Type: organizations

Delegated limits for capital investmentEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The delegated limits for capital investment published in June 2003 (revised in December 2003) have been updated to reflect capital cost inflation and changes to the trust performance rating system. The body of this guidance note sets out in detail the delegated authority to enter capital transactions of NHS Trusts, Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) and Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs), and addresses some of the frequently asked questions about the application of delegated limits. NHS Foundation Trusts are not subject to delegated limits for capital investment set by the Department of Health. Key features of the arrange...
Source: NHS Networks - November 28, 2007 Category: UK Health Source Type: organizations

PCT Performance Ratings: Re-Organisation Is Bad For Your HealthEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Healthcare Commission's announcement of NHS performance ratings for 2006/07 confirms the view of many frontline staff. Re-organisation is bad for your health. The Commission's report emphasises distinct differences in both quality of services and use of resources between those PCTs that were re-organised last year and those that were not. [click link for full article] (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 22, 2007 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Mencap's Concern At New NHS Performance Ratings Announced By The Healthcare Commission, UKEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Dame Jo Williams, chief executive of Mencap, said "The performance ratings show that there is still a long way to go to improve the services for people with a learning disability. We are disappointed at the lost opportunity to tackle the inequalities that exist for people with a learning disability accessing healthcare. [click link for full article] (Source: Public Health News From Medical News Today)
Source: Public Health News From Medical News Today - October 22, 2007 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

NHS performance ratingsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Healthcare Commission has published performance ratings... (Source: PCCAS: Full newsfeed)
Source: PCCAS: Full newsfeed - October 19, 2007 Category: Practice Management Source Type: organizations

NHS performance ratingsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Healthcare Commission has published performance ratings... (Source: Modernisation)
Source: Modernisation - October 18, 2007 Category: UK Health Source Type: organizations

The Annual Health Check: Performance Ratings 2006/2007 (Healthcare Commission)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Healthcare Commission has published performance ratings for all NHS trusts in England. These are based on the results of the 2006/07 annual health check of NHS trusts, the most comprehensive assessment of NHS performance. In its second year, the ann... (Source: Clinical Governance Sitewide RSS Feed)
Source: Clinical Governance Sitewide RSS Feed - October 18, 2007 Category: UK Health Tags: Key Elements/Clinical Governance Overview/National Source Type: organizations

Annual Healthcheck 2006/07Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Healthcare Commission has published performance ratings for all NHS trusts in England, showing overall improvement in quality of services and use of resources. The independent watchdog is releasing the results of the 2006/07 annual health check of NHS trusts, the most comprehensive assessment of NHS performance. In its second year, the annual health check for the first time now gives people the chance to compare performance. People can see if trusts are improving in meeting the Government’s standards and targets in areas of real importance to them, like quality of care, safety and waiting times. All...
Source: NHS Networks - October 18, 2007 Category: UK Health Source Type: organizations

Healthcare Commission publishes annual health check of NHS trusts in EnglandEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Healthcare Commission has published the results of the 2006/07 annual health check of NHS trusts in England, which includes performance ratings showing an overall improvement. Depending on the services provided at each trust, the Commission’s rating on quality of services is based on: • 24 core standards (with 44 components) in areas such as safety, standards of care and how responsive of a trust to patients. • Up to 19 existing national targets designed to ensure that trusts are meeting basic levels of service in areas such as waiting times. • Up to 14 new national targets designed to promote improvement in b...
Source: NeLM Headline News - October 18, 2007 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Tags: Commission for Healthcare Audit & amp; Inspection (CHAI), Hospital trusts, Information provision, Clinical governance / audit, Infection control Source Type: organizations

Trusts to receive performance ratingsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The results of the most comprehensive assessment of NHS performance will be revealed this week. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News)
Source: HealthcareRepublic Pharmacist News - October 15, 2007 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Trusts to receive performance ratingsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The results of the most comprehensive assessment of NHS performance will be revealed this week. (Source: Healthcare Republic News)
Source: Healthcare Republic News - October 15, 2007 Category: UK Health Source Type: news

Effects Of Moderate Sleep Deprivation and Low-Dose Alcohol On Driving Simulator Performance and Perception In Young MenEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Discussion: These data indicate that combining low-dose alcohol with moderate sleep restriction results in significant decrements to subjective alertness and performance as well as to some driving performance and EEG parameters. This highlights the potential risks of driving after consumption of low and legal doses of alcohol when also sleep restricted. (Source: Sleep)
Source: Sleep - October 5, 2007 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: journals

Here Comes BlueCompare, Round 2Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The latest information regarding BlueCompare performance ratings from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas (BCBS) arrived in physicians' mailboxes last week. The good news is the ratings are based on a much smaller set of performance measures, which were reviewed by a BCBS committee of TMA-member physicians. The bad news is that BCBS has taken very few steps to address serious concerns regarding the physician data used to generate the ratings. (Source: Blogged_Arteries)
Source: Blogged_Arteries - October 2, 2007 Category: Health Management Source Type: organizations

Commission for Social Care Inspection publishes annual reportEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Commission for Social Care Inspection has published its annual report which demonstrates how CSCI has been developing its inspection processes. CSCI has recruited people who use social care services - CSCI call them Experts By Experience - to participate in inspections. They are putting in place ways of assessing the performance of councils, which put more emphasis on the quality of services they commission. And the Commission continues to strengthen its new approach to transform the inspection of regulated services: Inspecting for Better Lives, which emphasises listening to people who use services. Perform...
Source: NHS Networks - July 26, 2007 Category: UK Health Source Type: organizations

Does a Structured Free Recall Intervention Reduce the Effect of Stereotypes on Performance Ratings and by What Cognitive Mechanism?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The purpose of this article was to extend previous work on the effect of racial biases on performance ratings. The 1st of 2 studies examined whether a structured free recall intervention decreased the influence of negative racial biases on the performance ratings of Black men. Results indicated that without the intervention, raters who endorsed a negative stereotype of Black men as managers evaluated Black men more negatively. However, the structured free recall intervention successfully reduced these effects. The second study examined in more detail the cognitive mechanisms underlying the success of the intervention. Resu...
Source: Journal of Applied Psychology - June 19, 2007 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Baltes, Boris B.; Bauer, Cara B.; Frensch, Peter A. Source Type: journals

Job Demands and Job Performance: The mediating effect of psychological and physical strain and the moderating effect of role clarity.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The aims of the present study were twofold: First, in differentiating between specific job characteristics, the authors examined the moderating influence of role clarity on the relationship between job demands and psychological and physical strain. Second, in providing a more comprehensive link between job demands and job performance, the authors examined strain as a mediator of that relationship. Participants were 1,418 Army cadets attending a 35-day assessment center. Survey data were collected on Day 26 of the assessment center and performance ratings were assessed throughout the assessment center period by expert evalu...
Source: Journal of Occupational Health Psychology - June 19, 2007 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Lang, Jessica; Thomas, Jeffrey L.; Bliese, Paul D.; Adler, Amy B. Source Type: journals

When Fit Is Fundamental: Performance Evaluations and Promotions of Upper-Level Female and Male Managers.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Using archival organizational data, the authors examined relationships of gender and type of position (i.e., line or staff) to performance evaluations of 448 upper-level managers, and relationships of performance evaluations to promotions during the subsequent 2 years. Consistent with the idea that there is a greater perceived lack of fit between stereotypical attributes of women and requirements of line jobs than staff jobs, women in line jobs received lower performance ratings than women in staff jobs or men in either line or staff jobs. Moreover, promoted women had received higher performance ratings than promoted men a...
Source: Journal of Applied Psychology - June 19, 2007 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Lyness, Karen S.; Heilman, Madeline E. Source Type: journals

NHS trusts' performance against core standards for 2006-2007Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Healthcare Commission has released information on NHS trusts’ self-reported performance against the Government’s core standards for healthcare, for 2006-2007. This information has been made available as part of the Healthcare Commission’s annual health check of English NHS trusts, which replaced the NHS star ratings. Analysis of this year’s declarations shows: • more trusts say they meet all of the standards, with the total declaring full compliance rising from 34% in 2005/2006 to 40% in 2006/2007 • the overall compliance rate is high – above 94% • There was improvement in two standards that rela...
Source: NeLM Headline News - June 18, 2007 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Tags: Clinical governance / audit, Hospital trusts Source Type: organizations

Conflicting measures of hospital quality: Ratings from "Hospital Compare" versus "Best Hospitals"Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We examined Hospital Compare scores for core measures related to care for acute myocardial infarction (AMI), congestive heart failure (CHF), and community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). We calculated composite scores for the disease-specific sets of core measures and a composite combined score for the 14 core measures (across 3 diseases) and determined national score quartile cut points for each set. We then characterized the quartile distribution of Hospital Compare scores for the Best Hospitals for care of cardiac conditions and respiratory disorders in each year, as well as for the Best Hospital "Honor Roll" institutions.AMI...
Source: Journal of Hospital Medicine - June 4, 2007 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Lakshmi K. Halasyamani, Matthew M. Davis Source Type: journals

Physicians Should Be Able To Review Performance Ratings Before Release, USAEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A policy paper and principles assuring that physicians are given the opportunity to comment on performance ratings that they believe are inaccurate were adopted this week by the American College of Physicians (ACP) at its annual meeting. [click link for full article] (Source: Public Health News From Medical News Today)
Source: Public Health News From Medical News Today - April 24, 2007 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Physicians Should Be Able To Review Performance Ratings Before Release, USAEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A policy paper and principles assuring that physicians are given the opportunity to comment on performance ratings that they believe are inaccurate were adopted this week by the American College of Physicians (ACP) at its annual meeting. [click link for full article] (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - April 24, 2007 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Physicians should be able to review performance rates before releaseEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A policy paper and principles assuring that physicians are given the opportunity to comment on performance ratings that they believe are inaccurate were adopted this week by the American College of Physicians at its annual meeting. The principles address performance ratings that do not take into account the characteristics of the practice or patient population being treated prior to the release of ratings to the public. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - April 20, 2007 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Healthcare Commission publishes results of diabetes surveyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The results of a national survey of people with diabetes have been published by the Healthcare Commission. The survey assessed whether people with diabetes are receiving the care, treatment and information they need to manage their diabetes well and reduce the risk of complications. Local PCTs sent the questionnaire out to almost 125,000 adults (aged 16 and over) with diabetes, and responses were received from 68,500 (response rate of 55%). The main findings included: • 73% of respondents said that they were given the right amount of verbal information at the time of diagnosis, though only 57% reported receiving the rig...
Source: NeLM news - Diabetes - April 11, 2007 Category: Endocrinology Tags: Diabetes, Clinical governance / audit, Primary Care Trusts, Hospital trusts Source Type: organizations

Disclosure of Individual Surgeon's Performance Rates During Informed Consent: Ethical and Epistemological Considerations.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Public disclosure of surgeon-specific performance ratings has grown over the past decades as part of the trend to improve the quality of health care and empower patients to make better-informed medical decisions. This paper examines the ethical arguments for and against disclosure during informed consent as well as the challenges that generating and using performance information entail. (Source: Annals of Surgery)
Source: Annals of Surgery - March 29, 2007 Category: Surgery Tags: Abstract HTML PDF (256 K) Source Type: journals