Reliability of medical record abstraction by non-physicians for orthopedic research

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

Volumn 14, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Mi, Michael Y ^a,b   Collins, Jamie E ^b,c   Lerner, Vladislav ^b   Losina, Elena ^a,b,c   Katz, Jeffrey N ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Kappa statistic; Medical record review; Reliability; Total knee replacement

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RECORD ABSTRACTION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; ORTHOPEDICS; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESEARCH; RISK FACTOR; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING AS TOPIC; AGED; ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORTHOPEDICS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84878638021     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2474-14-181     Document Type: Article

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