Interobserver agreement on classifying endoscopic diagnoses of nonerosive esophagitis

Endoscopy

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1032-1035

  Amano, Y ^a   Ishimura, N ^a   Furuta, K ^a   Okita, K ^a   Masaharu, M ^a   Azumi, T ^a   Ose, T ^a   Koshino, K ^a   Ishihara, S ^a   Adachi, K ^a   Kinoshita, Y ^a  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ACCREDITATION; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; KAPPA STATISTICS; LABORATORY PERSONNEL; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; OBSERVER VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; WORK EXPERIENCE;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; ESOPHAGITIS; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33750286011     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-944778     Document Type: Article

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