Assessing the quality of comments on reports: a retrospective study.

Ann Clin Biochem

Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, Berkshire, UK.

Published: May 1999

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.

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