Inter-rater agreement on assessment of outcome within a trauma registry

Injury

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 130-134

  Ekegren, C L ^a   Hart, M J ^a,b   Brown, A ^a   Gabbe, B J ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Extended Glasgow Outcome Scale; Inter rater agreement; Outcome measures; Registry; Reliability; Trauma; Validity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISABILITY; EXTENDED GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; FOLLOW UP; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; INTERVIEW; KAPPA STATISTICS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AUSTRALIA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DISABLED PERSON; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MORTALITY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REGISTER; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

AUSTRALIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISABLED PERSONS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REGISTRIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84953738731     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: 18790267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2015.08.002     Document Type: Article

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