Case-Note Abstraction: A Methodological Substudy as Cautionary Tale
- 1 January 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of the Addictions
- Vol. 11 (3), 409-416
- https://doi.org/10.3109/10826087609056160
Abstract
A sample of 42 case notes of alcoholic patients were abstracted for 17 items by three different raters. Interrater agreement was generally rather low. Research based on case-note abstraction which does not report on abstraction reliabilities must therefore be viewed with some suspicion. It would be helpful if clinical material could more often be collected in a standardized manner.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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