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OBSERVER VARIATION IN THE CLINICAL ASSESSMENT OF STROKE

W. M. GARRAWAY, A. J. AKHTAR, S. M. GORE, R. J. PRESCOTT and R. G. SMITH

Department of Community Medicine, Medicine (Western General Hospital) and Medical Computing and Statistics Group, University of Edinburgh

Clinical assessments have to be used in epidemiological studies in the absence of more objectivemeans of establishing diagnosis or recording events in the natural history of disease. Thisrequires the standardization of definition, technique and interpretation as a means of reducingobserver variability in clinical examination. The methods used to reduce the observer variationin the clinical assessment of stroke patients are described and results are presented which demonstrate the degree to which this was achieved.


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