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Empirical analysis shows that in cases for which our data is representative, having more queries is more helpful for reliability than having more assessors.
The problem of assessing agreement between two or more assessors, or raters, is ubiquitous in medical research.
The SHAP-C should be used with caution when more assessors are engaged.
With more assessors, inter-rater reliability could have been assessed and idiosyncrasies of individual raters may be revealed.
This effect could potentially have been reduced by using two or more assessors to score animals at the same time points.
The fact that senior doctors generally spend more time in administration and less time in practice might also explain why senior doctors may need more assessors than junior doctors.
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Assessees received lower scores from more senior assessors.
Doctors received lower scores from more senior assessors (p<0.001) and higher scores from those they had known longer (p<0.001).
19 Assessees received lower scores from more senior assessors, which was similar to findings by Davies et al 5 where consultants scored trainees lower using the histopathology MSF tool, PATH-SPRAT.
In this explorative study, the categorization of REC comments was performed by one author, while this would ideally have been done by two or more independent assessors and disagreements resolved by consensus.
"There's no doubt that the process could definitely be modernised, and I'd like to know more about the assessors.
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