Abstract
Experienced data managers, when interviewing patients, draw varying conclusions regarding toxic effects experienced by such patients. Neither the NCIC-CTG expanded toxicity scale nor the WHO standard toxicity scale demonstrated a clear superiority in reliability, although the breadth of toxic effects recorded differed.
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Cohen's kappaKappaToxicityInter-rater reliabilityClinical trialMedicineGrading (engineering)Reliability (semiconductor)PsychologyStatisticsRating scaleInternal medicineMathematics
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- 1138-1148
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Michael Brundage,
Joseph L. Pater,
Benny Zee
(1993).
Assessing the Reliability of Two Toxicity Scales: Implications for Interpreting Toxicity Data.
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
, 85
(14)
, 1138-1148.
https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/85.14.1138
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- 10.1093/jnci/85.14.1138