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	DOI:10.4269/ajtmh.13-0658

Corpus ID: 6624278Importance of including borderline cases in trachoma grader certification.
@article{Gaynor2014ImportanceOI,
  title={Importance of including borderline cases in trachoma grader certification.},
  author={B. Gaynor and A. Amza and Sintayehu Gebresailassie and B. Kadri and B. Nassirou and N. Stoller and S. Yu and Puja A. Cuddapah and J. Keenan and T. Lietman},
  journal={The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene},
  year={2014},
  volume={91 3},
  pages={
          577-9
        }
}
	B. Gaynor, A. Amza, +7 authors T. Lietman
	Published 2014
	Medicine
	The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene

We assessed trachoma grading agreement among field graders using photographs that included the complete spectrum of disease and compared it with cases where there was consensus among experienced graders. Trained photographers took photographs of children's conjunctiva during a clinical trial in Ethiopia. We calculated κ-agreement statistics using a complete set of 60 cases and then recalculated the κ using a consensus set where cases were limited to those cases with agreement among experienced… Expand

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