ArticleBMC medical research methodology2019
Providing quality data in health care - almost perfect inter-rater agreement in the Norwegian tonsil surgery register.
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- Digital Health Data Quality Issues: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Pooled it
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- Psychometric evaluation of the Decision Support System (DSS) for municipal nurses encountering health deterioration among older adults.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- A validation study of the 30-day questionnaire in the national Norwegian Tonsil Surgery Register: can we trust the data reported by the patients?European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology : official journal of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS) : affiliated with the German Society for Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Head and Neck Surgery · 2024Article
- Validation of the Swedish Quality Register for Ear Surgery - SwedEar.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2023Article
- Excellent agreement of Norwegian trauma registry data compared to corresponding data in electronic patient records.Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2023Article
- Reducing post-tonsillectomy haemorrhage: a multicentre quality improvement programme incorporating video-based cold technique instruction.BMJ open quality · 2022Article
- Comparison of clinical practice of tonsil surgery from quality register data from Sweden and Norway and one clinic in Denmark.BMJ open · 2022Observational
- A validation study of data in the National Tonsil Surgery Register in Sweden: high agreement with medical records ensures that data can be used to monitor clinical practices and outcomes.BMC medical research methodology · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe Norwegian Tonsil Surgery Register (NTSR) was launched in January 2017. The purpose of the register is to present data on tonsil surgery to facilitate improvements in patient care. Data used for evaluating the quality of medical care needs to be of high reliability. This study aims to assess the inter-rater reliability (IRR) of the variables reported to the register by medical professionals.
methodsThe study population consists of the first 137 tonsil surgery patients who were included in the NTSR at St. Olav's University Hospital in Trondheim. An experienced rater completed the register's paper form for all 137 patients based on their electronic medical records, blinded for the data already in the register. To assess the inter-rater reliability between the register and the external rater, we calculated observed agreement, Cohen's kappa and Gwet's AC
resultsAll tested variables in the NTSR have almost perfect reliability except for the variable for the cold steel technique, which had a substantial to almost perfect reliability. The inter-rater agreement was substantial to almost perfect for every variable, with substantial (kappa/AC
conclusionThis study shows that the reliability of the NTSR is high for all variables registered by the professionals at the hospital immediately after surgery.
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