Reliability of Electronic Versus Manual Wound Measurement Techniques

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 87, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1396-1402

  Haghpanah, Sepideh ^a   Bogie, Kath ^b,c   Wang, Xiaofeng ^d   Banks, Patricia G ^c   Ho, Chester H ^c  

^a METROHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Rehabilitation; Reliability and validity; Wounds and injuries

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; DEVICE; ELECTRONICS; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; PAPER; RELIABILITY; REPEAT PROCEDURE; WOUND; WOUND ASSESSMENT;

HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33749139941     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2006.06.014     Document Type: Article

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