Can paediatric medical students devise a satisfactory standard of examination for their colleagues?
Students in this study were able to derive an examination of a satisfactory standard for their peers. Involvement of students in deriving examination standards may give them a better appreciation of how standards should be set and maintained.
Our results emphasize the need of a standardized statistical approach to calculate cTnI 99th percentiles. Our findings support the use of the nonparametric method and a conservative approach to detect outliers. This requires that the assessed population is sufficiently large and well selected on the basis of stringently applied clinical criteria.