Interobserver agreement in defecography - An international study

Zeitschrift fur Gastroenterologie

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 273-280

  Muller Lissner S A ^a   Bartolo, D C C ^b   Christiansen, J ^c   Ekberg, O ^d   Goei, R ^e   Hopfner W ^f   Infantino, A ^g   Kuijpers, H C ^h   Selvaggi, F ⁱ   Wald, A ^j  

^a Park Klinik Weissensee   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e Sittard Geleen Heerlen   (Netherlands)

^f Zentralklinikum ^*  (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^h RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

ⁱ FEDERICO II UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^j UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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Author keywords

Anismus; Constipation; Defecography; Kappa statistics; Rectal prolapse; Rectocele

Indexed keywords

ANORECTAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CONSTIPATION; DEFECATION; DEFECOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FECES INCONTINENCE; HUMAN; INTESTINE FUNCTION; OBSERVER VARIATION; RECTOCELE; RECTUM PROLAPSE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TECHNIQUE;

ANUS DISEASES; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEFECOGRAPHY; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; RECTAL DISEASES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 7144229365     PISSN: 00442771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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