Surely the whole point of QA of interpretation isn't to reflect on your typical practice, but to give you some insight into what you might think/write/say in a particular situation and taking the responses and critically assess the apparent "best" response against what you do.
If you realise you should/should not indicate/consider particular points then surely that is the point and why you gain CPD points.
Whether particular groups should comment on treatment, the need to discuss with clinicians before commenting, etc. all depend on your particular context/prejudices. Whatever you do should be appropriate and may just, on occasion, be informed by being in the UKNEQAS interpretive scheme or indeed in more specialist schemes.
Ian Watson
>>> "Sharpe, Peter Dr" <[log in to unmask]> 11/21/02 12:14PM >>>
I would go much further and state that I feel the whole area of report
comments is a "nonsense". I would never, ever attach comments to any report
unless I have personally spoken to the requesting clinician to find out more
details.
All the assessors want from us is to give text-book answers. In many cases,
without knowing the full clinical details, our comments are useless and
indeed even potentially dangerous.
I have frequently thought about leaving the scheme, but haven't have the
nerve to do so.
Regards
Peter
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