Script concordance testing: assessing residents' clinical decision-making skills for infant lumbar punctures

Todd P Chang1, David Kessler, Brett McAninch

  • 1Dr. Chang is assistant professor of pediatrics, Division of Emergency Medicine and Transport, Children's Hospital Los Angeles and University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California. Dr. Kessler is assistant professor of pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York. Dr. McAninch is assistant professor, Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dr. Fein is assistant professor of pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Children's Hospital at Montefiore affiliated with Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York. Dr. Scherzer is clinical associate professor of pediatrics, Division of Emergency Medicine, Nationwide Children's Hospital and Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. Dr. Seelbach is assistant professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky. Dr. Zaveri is assistant professor of pediatrics and emergency medicine, Division of Emergency Medicine, Children's National Medical Center and George Washington University, Washington, DC. Dr. Jackson is assistant professor of pediatrics, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Dr. Auerbach is assistant professor of pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut. Dr. Mehta is associate professor of pediatrics, Section of Critical Care, Georgia Regents University, Augusta, Georgia. Dr. Van Ittersum is assistant professor of pediatrics, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Pusic is assistant professor of emergency medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York.

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