How many neurologists/epileptologists are needed to provide reliable descriptions of seizure types?

We are developing seizure descriptions as a basis for decision support. Based on an existing dataset we used the Spearman-Brown prophecy formula to estimate how many neurologist/epileptologists are needed to obtain reliable seizure descriptions (rho = 0.9). By extending the number of participants to...

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Published inStudies in health technology and informatics Vol. 95; p. 549
Main Authors van Ast, J F, Talmon, J L, Renier, W O, Hasman, A
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Netherlands 2003
Subjects
Clinical Competence
Decision Support Systems, Clinical
Humans
Netherlands
Neurology - standards
Reproducibility of Results
Seizures - classification
Seizures - diagnosis
Netherlands
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Summary:We are developing seizure descriptions as a basis for decision support. Based on an existing dataset we used the Spearman-Brown prophecy formula to estimate how many neurologist/epileptologists are needed to obtain reliable seizure descriptions (rho = 0.9). By extending the number of participants to the required level we found that the number of participants needed to obtain a reliability coefficient of 0.9 were in accordance with the number of participants determined from the Spearman-Brown prophecy formula. Systematic differences between the participants were minor and not statistically significant.
ISSN:0926-9630
DOI:10.3233/978-1-60750-939-4-549