Reliability of ophthalmic diagnoses in an epidemiologic survey

In the Nepal Blindness Survey, 39,887 people in 105 sites were examined by 10 ophthalmologists from Nepal and four other countries during 1981. Ophthalmic protocols were pretested on approximately 3000 subjects; however, interobserver variability was inevitable. To quantify the amount of variability and assess the reliability of important ophthalmic measures, a study of interobserver agreement… Continue reading Reliability of ophthalmic diagnoses in an epidemiologic survey