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Dexterity assessment of hospital workers: prospective comparative study

by bkudria on 12/28/24, 1:28 AM with 10 comments

• by Animats on 12/28/24, 7:57 PM

  There's a standard test for this: The O'Connor Tweezer Dexterity Test.[1] There's a board with small holes, a supply of metal pins, and a tweezer for putting pins in the holes. It's overpriced, because it's "medical".

  Some electronics assembly plants use such a test to screen new hires.

  Tweezer dexterity improves with practice. Hands are more precise than vision. Looking through a microscope, you can position something within a thousandth of an inch with tweezers. This is familiar to anyone who's placed surface mount parts on a board by hand.

  [1] https://www.amazon.com/s?k=tweezer+dexterity+test

• by wslh on 12/28/24, 4:28 PM

  The study appears to omit handedness as a potential factor influencing performance.

• by qrybam on 12/28/24, 4:08 PM

  Gut reaction to the results: swearing because you feel you should have got it, and frustration because you feel it's too hard.

• by magic_smoke_ee on 12/29/24, 10:39 AM

  I still think surgeons should offer shaves.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barber_surgeon

• by woliveirajr on 12/28/24, 4:10 PM

  > Implementation of a surgical swear jar initiative

  Yes, the main goal of a surgical site is to avoid swearing

  > our findings are not applicable to children younger than 4 years for whom the buzz wire game’s small parts may represent a choking hazard, although these individuals are unlikely to be currently employed in secondary care.

  Now, that's a point. I'd avoid a 0-3 toddler if i could choose so before some surgery.