Slide Presentation of the 2007 Annual Meeting of AHRQ

Methods: experimental scenarios

• Instructions for time trials
  • "For these scenarios, imagine that you're with a real patient and work at your normal pace."
• Example:
  • "Next you see a regular patient, Abigail B. Cook. She is 74-year old with a history of rheumatoid arthritis. She also complains of pain when she urinates. The urine culture reveals that the she has a UTI due to E. coli that is resistant to fluoroquinolones. Prescribe an antibiotic to treat her UTI"