Low agreement among 24 doctors using the Neer-classification; only moderate agreement on displacement, even between specialists

International Orthopaedics

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 271-273

  Brorson, S ^a   Bagger, J ^b   Sylvest, A ^b   Hrobjartsson A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FRACTURE DISLOCATION; HUMAN; HUMERUS FRACTURE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENT; SURGEON;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; HUMERAL FRACTURES; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORTHOPEDICS; RADIOLOGY;

EID: 0036932926     PISSN: 03412695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00264-002-0369-x     Document Type: Article

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