So... you should now 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 one goes about assessing reliability and defining the Kappa value

Credits

This web-based module was designed by Dr. Heather Murray, Dr. Will Pickett, Ms. Heather Lindsay and Mr. Jacob Pace under the direction of Dr. Sue Moffatt, as a collaborative project between the Clinical Skills and Clinical Epidemiology programs at Queen's Medicine. The module was developed by Heather Lindsay and Jacob Pace with support from MEdTech.

Revised April 2013

License

This module is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives license . The module may be redistributed and used provided that credit is given to the author and it is used for non-commercial purposes only. The contents of this presentation cannot be changed or used individually.