Cm. Rozewski, A METHOD FOR MEASURING AND REPORTING MANUAL DATA EXTRACTION RELIABILITY, Computer methods and programs in biomedicine, 41(1), 1993, pp. 17-31
As health care costs have risen dramatically, the use of clinical data
to analyze the quality of health care provided has increased. Central
to this analysis is the means by which the clinical data itself is ob
tained. The reliability and validity of the data must be established i
n order to insure credible use of the data. The Wisconsin Ambulatory R
eview Project (WARP) is a three-year study of the nature of care in th
e ambulatory setting based on clinical data extracted retrospectively
from written medical charts. This paper focuses on the method used to
measure and report the reliability of the extraction process in the WA
RP study. The implementation of this methodology as a custom C program
is described in detail.