Assessing health benefit from hospitalization. Agreement between expert panels.
Agreement between two expert panels in assessing gain in life expectancy and quality of life from unselected stays in a department of internal medicine was investigated. Weighted kappa statistics of 0.45 for gain in life expectancy and 0.63 for gain in quality of life were found.
Eriksen
B O
BO
University Hospital of Tromsø.
Almdahl
S M
SM
Hensrud
A
A
Jaeger
S
S
Kristiansen
I S
IS
Mürer
F A
FA
Nord
E
E
Pape
J F
JF
Robertsen
R
R
Thorsen
G
G
D001499:Bayes Theorem; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000191:economics*; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D007388:Internal Medicine; D008017:Life Expectancy; D009664:Norway; D015588:Observer Variation; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D011788:Quality of Life; D012044:Regression Analysis