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Title

Reliability of Quality Assessments in Research Synthesis: Securing the Highest Quality Bioinformation for HIT

 

Authors

Francesco Chiappelli1, 2*, André Barkhordarian, C Phil1, 2, Rashi Arora1, 2, Linda Phi1, 2, Amy Giroux1, 2, Molly Uyeda1, 2, Jason Kung2, 3 & Manisha Ramchandani1, 2

 

Affiliation

1Division of Oral Biology & Medicine, UCLA School of Dentistry, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1668; 2Evidence-Based Study Group, EBD-Practice-Based Research Network; 3Zen Dental Center - Private Practice, Campbell, CA

 

Email

fchiappelli@dentistry.ucla.edu; *Corresponding author

 

Article Type

Current Trends

Date

Received June 30, 2012; Accepted July 06, 2012; Published July 21, 2012

 

Abstract

Current trends in bio-medicine include research synthesis and dissemination of bioinformation by means of health (bio) information technology (H[b] IT). Research must secure the validity and reliability of assessment tools to quantify research quality in the pursuit of the best available evidence. Our concerted work in this domain led to the revision of three instruments for that purpose, including the stringent characterization of inter-rater reliability and coefficient of agreement. It is timely and critical to advance the methodological development of the science of research synthesis by strengthening the reliability of existing measure of research quality in order to ensure H[b] IT efficacy and effectiveness.

 

Keywords

Health (bio) information technology (H[b] IT), research quality validation, reliability, acceptable sampling analysis, efficacy, effectiveness

 

Citation

Chiappelli et al. Bioinformation 8(14): 691-694 (2012)
 

Edited by

P Kangueane

 

ISSN

0973-2063

 

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

 

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.