Follicle size in trachoma: assessment of a well-known trachoma grading diagram
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Reliability of Trachoma Clinical Grading—Assessing Grading of Marginal Cases
BACKGROUND Clinical examination of trachoma is used to justify intervention in trachoma-endemic regions. Currently, field graders are certified by determining their concordance with experienced graders using the kappa statistic. Unfortunately, trachoma grading can be highly variable and there are cases where even expert graders disagree (borderline/marginal cases). Prior work has shown that inc...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Ophthalmology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0007-1161,1468-2079
DOI: 10.1136/bjophthalmol-2013-304810