Reliability of the peer-review process for adverse event rating.

Adverse events are poor patient outcomes caused by medical care. Their identification requires the peer-review of poor outcomes, which may be unreliable. Combining physician ratings might improve the accuracy of adverse event classification.To evaluate the variation in peer-reviewer ratings of adver...

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Main Authors: Alan J Forster, Monica Taljaard, Carol Bennett, Carl van Walraven
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3406022?pdf=render