Interrater Reliability: Completing the Methods Description in Medical Records Review Studies
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Interrater reliability: completing the methods description in medical records review studies.
In medical records review studies, information on the interrater reliability (IRR) of the data is seldom reported. This study assesses the IRR of data collected for a complex medical records review study. Elements selected for determining IRR included "demographic" data that require copying explicit information (e.g., gender, birth date), "free-text" data that require identifying and copying (e...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1476-6256,0002-9262
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwi122