Objectives Evaluation of the inter-rater reliability of clinical assessment methods for pelvic floor muscles and diastasis recti abdominis post partum. Design A multicentre inter-rater reliability ...

This document provides preliminary estimates for 2013 on hospital-acquired conditions (HACs), indicating a 17 percent decline, from 145 to 121 HACs per 1,000 discharges, from 2010 to 2013. A ...

BACKGROUND: The Pediatric Balance Scale (PBS) was developed from a modified version of the Berg Balance Scale aiming to obtain a balance scale more appropriate for the child population. OBJECTIVES: To ...

What problems does this solve? Qualitative coding is a process often used in qualitative research, especially with the grounded theory methodology. Basically, it involves a researcher (the coder or ...

quallmer.app provides an interactive Shiny application for working with qualitative data coded using the quallmer package. The app supports: The sample dataset contains 20 movie reviews coded by three ...

Data sources An electronic database search was conducted (to 6 August 2012) of databases such as: MEDLINE, CINAHL, EMBASE, PubMed and Cochrane Databases. References from identified articles were ...

1 McMaster Evidence-based Practice Centre, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada 2 Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada 3 ...

1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, USA. 2 Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA. 3. Gwet’s Kappa: An Improved Model of Chance Agreement 1) ...

Acute ischemic stroke is a leading cause of pediatric death and disability. A clinical scale adapted for children can ensure early detection of candidates for urgent acute ischemic stroke treatment.

Inter-rater reliability (IRR) is a crucial concept in the field of research and data analysis, particularly when multiple raters are involved in assessing or evaluating the same subjects or events.

Introduction: To ensure the quality of clinical trial safety data, universal data standards are required. In 2019 the International Neonatal Consortium (INC) published a neonatal adverse event ...