title: How many neurologists/epileptologists are needed to provide reliable descriptions of seizure types?
abstract: We are developing seizure descriptions as a basis for decision support. Based on an existing dataset we used the Spearman-Brown prophecy formula to estimate how many neurologist/epileptologists are needed to obtain reliable seizure descriptions (rho = 0.9). By extending the number of participants to the required level we found that the number of participants needed to obtain a reliability coefficient of 0.9 were in accordance with the number of participants determined from the Spearman-Brown prophecy formula. Systematic differences between the participants were minor and not statistically significant.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Informatics, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands. w.vanast@mi.unimaas.nl
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: van Ast
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Talmon
authors.forename: W O
authors.initials: WO
authors.lastname: Renier
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hasman
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical; D006801:Humans; D009426:Netherlands; D009462:Neurology / Q000592:standards*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012640:Seizures / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis*