Inter-Observer Agreement for Quality Measures Applied to Online Health Information

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 107, Issue , 2004, Pages 1308-1312

  Sagaram, Smitha ^a   Walji, Muhammad ^a   Meric Bernstam, Funda ^b   Johnson, Craig ^a   Bernstam, Elmer ^a  

^a University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Complementary Therapies; Information Storage; Internet; Retrieval

Indexed keywords

E-LEARNING; MEDICAL INFORMATICS;

COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINES; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; INTER-RATER AGREEMENTS; ONLINE HEALTH INFORMATION; OPERATIONAL DEFINITION; PRECISE DEFINITION; PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS; QUALITY CRITERIA; QUALITY MEASURES; RETRIEVAL;

MEDICINE;

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION STORAGE; INTERNET; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; INFORMATION SERVICE; OBSERVER VARIATION; STANDARD;

COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; HEALTH EDUCATION; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERNET; OBSERVER VARIATION; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE;

EID: 4844226401     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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