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SUBMITTER: Brittain PJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6878530 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Brittain Philip J PJ Stahl Daniel D Rucker James J Kawadler Jamie J Schumann Gunter G
International journal of methods in psychiatric research 20130509 2
The OPCRIT program is a symptom checklist with accompanying algorithms producing operationally defined diagnoses. We undertook a review of studies which had used OPCRIT and had reported statistics concerning its reliability and validity, producing summary measures from 44 studies. The first main measure of interest was inter-rater reliability where mean kappa values indicated that agreement between raters was "substantial" with a marginal improvement at the diagnostic (0.76) versus individual it ...[more]