Inter- and intraobserver reliability of the COFAS end-stage ankle arthritis classification system

Foot and Ankle International

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 103-108

  Krause, Fabian G ^a   Di Silvestro, Matthew ^a   Penner, Murray J ^a   Wing, Kevin J ^a   Glazebrook, Mark A ^a   Daniels, Timothy R ^a   Lau, Johnny T C ^a   Stothers, Keith ^a   Younger, Alastair S E ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Ankle arthritis; Classification; Validation

Indexed keywords

ANKLE ARTHRITIS; ANKLE RADIOGRAPHY; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SURGEON; SURGICAL TRAINING; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANKLE JOINT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; OSTEOARTHRITIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 75449115730     PISSN: 10711007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3113/FAI.2010.0103     Document Type: Article

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