Reliability of trachoma clinical grading--assessing grading of marginal cases.

• Главные авторы: Salman A Rahman (Автор), Sun N Yu (Автор), Abdou Amza (Автор), Sintayehu Gebreselassie (Автор), Boubacar Kadri (Автор), Nassirou Baido (Автор), Nicole E Stoller (Автор), Joseph P Sheehan (Автор), Travis C Porco (Автор), Bruce D Gaynor (Автор), Jeremy D Keenan (Автор), Thomas M Lietman (Автор)
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• Опубликовано: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-05-01T00:00:00Z.
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Clinical examination of trachoma is used to justify intervention in trachoma-endemic regions. Currently, field graders are certified by determining their concordance with experienced graders using the kappa statistic. Unfortunately, trachoma grading can be highly variable and there are cases where e...