Interrater reliability of measurements of comorbid illness should be reported

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 59, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 926-933

  Hall, Stephen F ^a   Groome, Patti A ^a   Streiner, David L ^b   Rochon, Paula A ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Kunin Lunenfeld Applied Research Unit and Department of Food and Nutrition Services and Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clinical measurement; Comorbidity; Comorbidity index; Oncology; Reliability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HEAD CANCER; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NECK CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMORBIDITY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; SELECTION BIAS;

EID: 33746691819     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2006.02.006     Document Type: Article

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