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Tuberculosis
New tuberculosis data have been reported by L. Raaby and co-authors
April 7th, 2009
"We assessed the inter-observer variation for a clinical staging score for tuberculosis (TB). 87 TB patients were examined by 2 independent observers within 2 h, and kappa was calculated," scientists in Aarhus, Denmark report. "The kappa value of the total Bandim TBscore being at or above 8 points was 0.637, representing a good inter-observer agreement," wrote L. Raaby and colleagues. The researchers concluded: "No systematic bias was found." Raaby and colleagues published their study in Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases (Inter-observer variation of the Bandim TB-score. Scandinavian Journal of Infectious...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-04-07)
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