Inter-Rater Reliability of Historical Data Collected by Non-Medical Research Assistants and Physicians in Patients with Acute Abdominal Pain

Inter-Rater Reliability of Historical Data Collected by Non-Medical Research Assistants and Physicians in Patients with Acute Abdominal Pain

OBJECTIVES: In many academic emergency departments (ED), physicians are asked to record clinical data for research that may be time consuming and distracting from patient care. We hypothesized that non-medical research assistants (RAs) could obtain historical information from patients with acute abd...

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Main Authors: Mills, Angela M, Dean, Anthony J, Shofer, Frances S, Hollander, Judd E, McCusker, Christine M, Keutmann, Michael K
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eScholarship Publishing, University of California 2009-02-01
Series:Western Journal of Emergency Medicine
Subjects:
abdominal pain
inter-rater reliability
emergency department
Online Access:http://escholarship.org/uc/item/4114498z

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