Inter-observer variability in APACHE II scoring: Effect of strict guidelines and training

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1365-1369

  Polderman, Kees H ^a   Jorna, Edward M ^b   Girbes, Armand R ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II score; Guidelines; Intensive care unit performance; Interobserver variability; Sources of errors; Training program

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRAINING;

APACHE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MEDICAL ERRORS; NETHERLANDS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0034879507     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001340101012     Document Type: Article

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