An assessment of inter-rater agreement of the literature filtering process in the development of evidence-based dietary guidelines

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 494-500

  Cooper, Marcia ^a,b,d   Ungar, Wendy ^c   Zlotkin, Stanley ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^d Bureau of Nutritional Sciences   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dietary guidelines; Evidence based; Inter rater agreement; Literature filtering

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DIET THERAPY; DIETITIAN; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL STUDENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCES; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCES AS TOPIC; DIETETICS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; NUTRITION POLICY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REVIEW LITERATURE; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STUDENTS;

EID: 33746442801     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/PHN2005877     Document Type: Article

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