Narayanan, Ajit
Farmer, Elizabeth A.
Greco, Michael J.
Article History
Received: 9 August 2018
Accepted: 14 December 2018
First Online: 29 December 2018
Change Date: 4 March 2019
Change Type: Correction
Change Details: Following publication of the original article [1], the author reported that Fig. 4 was missing. This has now been corrected in the original article.
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: No ethics approval was sought for this study since MSF is an evaluative survey exercise for the benefit of a doctor’s professional development (similar to evaluation cycles of university staff taking into account student evaluations of teaching, and other research involving observations in the public domain). All doctors gave their consent to having patient and colleague data collected for the purpose of CPD. Patients and colleagues were asked to record their observations with no invasive or interactive intervention. No interviews were conducted and no private information was sought. All patient and colleague data were anonymised at the point of collection and do not contain personal information to associate their data with named individuals No private or sensitive data were collected. Only gender and three age-bands were collected as sociodemographic variables for patients, which are not sufficient to identify specific patients in this study. All colleague data were collected on the basis of anonymity, and no text data that could identify the source of feedback were used in this study. In summary, no ethics approval was sought for this study because it involves only data analysis, with no identifiers or any private information.
: There is no material in this paper that requires consent for publication from any individuals, since no personal information of any sort is described or used.
: AN: Ajit Narayanan declares that he has acted as a paid statistical consultant to CFEP on several healthcare and healthcare-related commercial data surveys, and has produced commercial-in-confidence reports for CFP on that basis. He has received no payment for this paper or for the analysis undertaken in this paper, which is submitted for publication as an open access paper in an academic journal. EF: Has no competing interests to declare. MG: Michael Greco declares that he is a director of Focused Evaluations Program Pty Ltd. (trading as CFEP Surveys) which owns and administers the MSF tools used in this study.
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