Journal of general internal medicine
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Institutions rely on student evaluations of teaching (SET) to ascertain teaching quality. Manual review of narrative comments can identify faculty with teaching concerns but can be resource and time-intensive. ⋯ NLP methods can identify teaching quality concerns with good accuracy and reasonable recall, but relatively low precision. An existing, free, NLP sentiment analysis dictionary can perform nearly as well as dictionaries requiring expert coding or manual creation.
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To evaluate the evidence on the relationship between delay discounting and clinical diabetes outcomes, identify current measures, and recommend areas for future work. ⋯ Evidence supports the relationship between delay discounting and diabetes-related outcomes and self-care behaviors across measures of delay discounting and type of diabetes. To understand delay discounting as a mechanism driving diabetes outcomes and to develop targeted interventions, additional work using a multidisciplinary approach is needed to validate the construct, identify pathways, and refine intervention approaches that can be tested to improve population health.