Norwich Medical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
Med Teach. 2012;34(9):e620-34. doi: 10.3109/0142159X.2012.668625. Epub 2012 Apr 3.
The Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM) was published in 1997 as a tool to evaluate educational environments of medical schools and other health training settings and a recent review concluded that it was the most suitable such instrument.
This study aimed to review the settings and purposes to which the DREEM has been applied and the approaches used to analyse and report it, with a view to guiding future users towards appropriate methodology.
A systematic literature review was conducted using the Web of Knowledge databases of all articles reporting DREEM data between 1997 and 4 January 2011.
The review found 40 publications, using data from 20 countries. DREEM is used in evaluation for diagnostic purposes, comparison between different groups and comparison with ideal/expected scores. A variety of non-parametric and parametric statistical methods have been applied, but their use is inconsistent.
DREEM has been used internationally for different purposes and is regarded as a useful tool by users. However, reporting and analysis differs between publications. This lack of uniformity makes comparison between institutions difficult. Most users of DREEM are not statisticians and there is a need for informed guidelines on its reporting and statistical analysis.
1997 年，邓迪准备教育环境测量（DREEM）发表，作为评估医学院校和其他卫生培训机构教育环境的工具，最近的一项综述得出结论，它是最适合的此类工具。
本研究旨在回顾 DREEM 的应用环境和目的，以及用于分析和报告它的方法，以便为未来的用户提供适当的方法。
使用 Web of Knowledge 数据库对所有报告 1997 年至 2011 年 1 月 4 日期间 DREEM 数据的文章进行了系统的文献综述。
该综述发现了 40 篇出版物，数据来自 20 个国家。DREEM 用于诊断目的、不同组之间的比较以及与理想/预期分数的比较。已经应用了各种非参数和参数统计方法，但使用不一致。
DREEM 已在国际上用于不同目的，被用户视为有用的工具。然而，报告和分析在出版物之间存在差异。这种不一致使得机构之间的比较变得困难。DREEM 的大多数用户都不是统计学家，因此需要有关其报告和统计分析的知情指南。
