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Development and reliability of the Royal College of Physicians stroke audit form. UK Stroke Audit Group
P Gompertz1, M Dennis, A Hopkins
1Department of Acute Care of the Elderly, St Andrew's Hospital, London.
Age and Ageing
|September 1, 1994
Abstract:
This article reports the development of an audit form for assessing the quality of stroke care from medical records. A consensus conference to define standards was followed by testing of pilot versions of the audit form. Then formal assessment of inter-rater reliability was carried out in four centres using 76 medical records, each assessed by two of eight auditors. Inter-rater reliability was acceptable, especially when medically qualified auditors were used.