Reviewer agreement in scoring 419 abstracts for scientific orthopedics meetings

Acta Orthopaedica

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 278-284

  Poolman, Rudolf W ^a,d,e   Keijser, Lucien C M ^b   Malefijt, Maarten C De Waal ^c   Blankevoort, Leendert ^d   Farrokhyar, Forough ^a   Bhandari, Mohit ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Location Alkmaar   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e Onze Lieve Vrouwe Gasthuis ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DOCUMENT EXAMINATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; ORTHOPEDICS; PUBLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; SCORING SYSTEM;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING; CONGRESSES; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORTHOPEDICS; PEER REVIEW, RESEARCH; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL;

EID: 34247637665     PISSN: 17453674     EISSN: 17453682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17453670710013807     Document Type: Article

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