title: Assessing the quality of comments on reports: a retrospective study.
abstract: I describe a comparatively simple method for assessing the quality of comments on clinical biochemistry reports. It is based on independent peer review of components of comments, appears reasonably robust and correlates well with separate independent assessment of the value of complete comments. The method gives a numerical score, and thus lends itself to a wide range of statistical manipulations and assessment for education and audit purposes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, Berkshire, UK. g.challand@dial.pipex.com
authors.forename: G S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Challand
mesh_terms: D020407:Internet; D010380:Peer Review / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians'; D012189:Retrospective Studies