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A comment on “Micro Breaks” with Stretching Enhance Surgeon Physical Function and Focus. Parent comment

Re:“Micro Breaks” with Stretching Enhance Surgeon Physical F... by Retric on Monday March 06, 2017 @11:32AM (#13803739)
There are some objective measurements you can make on surgeon performance. Things like rate of infection or other complications have variability but do relate to surgeon competence in aggregate. Assuming, random patient selection.
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Re:“Micro Breaks” with Stretching Enhance Surgeon Physical F... by jessriedel on Monday March 06, 2017 @12:54PM (#13804500)
Sure, but you probably have to collect a lot more data to tease our such a tiny effect. Pain could plausibly be reduced by 50% with the correct exercises, but the complication rate would presumably change by at most a tiny amount.
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Re:“Micro Breaks” with Stretching Enhance Surgeon Physical F... by wtvanhest on Monday March 06, 2017 @01:31PM (#13804855)
One solution would be to change the test to "perceived pain". It doesn't matter if the person feels pain or not, if they perceive that they don't feel pain and it is less of a mental burden on them, stretching worked.
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