By the end of this module you should be able to:

• define accuracy and precision of clinical measurements
• define physiologic variability of measurements for a patient (intra-subject variability)
• define intra-rater reliability and inter-rater reliability and explain how they relate to reproducibility
• explain how these concepts can affect clinical decision-making
• explain how measurement reliability is assessed and define what a kappa value is

 

REFERNCES

Users guides to the medical literature : a manual for evidence-based clinical practice / The Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group ; edited by Gordon Guyatt, Drummond Rennie. Chicago, IL : AMA Press, c2002.

Fletcher, Robert H. Clinical epidemiology : the essentials / Robert H. Fletcher, Suzanne W. Fletcher. 4th ed. Baltimore : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2005.