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Schneider, Kirstie |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2006-05-18T16:48:23Z |
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2006-05-18T16:48:23Z |
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| dc.date.issued |
2006-05-18T16:48:23Z |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2271/66 |
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| dc.description |
Public Health and Outcome I
8:44 AM
Abstract 170 |
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Purpose: To compare handwriting legibility among professions. Methods: A convenience sample, stratified by gender, of 20 right-handed volunteers each from 7 occupations, rapidly wrote the sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” in <17 seconds. Legibility was scored by two methods. The number of malformed individual letters were visually judged by a single blinded investigator. Four investigators, blinded to subject characteristics, independently rated the global legibility of the writing samples on a 4-point scale: poor, fair, good, and excellent. Raters were tested with the kappa statistic. Characteristics and scores were compared using logit regression and post-hoc Wilcoxon rank-sum test. Scoring methods were compared by Spearman’s correlation. The study was powered to detect a difference of 25% across occupations. Results: Among 70 males and 70 females, with ages 18-64 years and 12-28 years of education, only education differed among groups. Legibility scores did not differ significantly by occupation, age or education. But legibility was significantly and consistently better in women. |
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en_US |
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| dc.subject |
Handwriting |
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| dc.subject |
Legibility |
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Physician |
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| dc.title |
Physican handwriting legibility is as good (or bad) as everyone else |
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Presentation |
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