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How many raters? toward the most reliable diagnostic consensus

Author(s) -

Kraemer Helena Chmura

Publication year - 1992

Publication title -

statistics in medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.996

H-Index - 183

eISSN - 1097-0258

pISSN - 0277-6715

DOI - 10.1002/sim.4780110305

Subject(s) - reliability (semiconductor) , consensus conference , computer science , medline , psychology , political science , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics , library science , law

When faced with a decision whether or not to treat a patient, to enter or to withdraw a patient from a clinical trial, or any other such binary decision, based on diagnosis with unsatisfactory reliability, can a consensus diagnosis be used to improve reliability? If so, exactly how? That is the question I address here. I draw comparisons and contrasts between the known results with an interval consensus and those with a binary consensus and suggest tactics for use in a pilot study to answer the above questions.

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