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Interobserver and Intraobserver Reliability of Clinical Assessments in Knee Osteoarthritis

Nasimah Maricar, Michael J. Callaghan, Matthew J. Parkes, David T. Felson and Terence W. O’Neill
The Journal of Rheumatology December 2016, 43 (12) 2171-2178; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.150835
Nasimah Maricar
From the Arthritis Research UK Centre for Epidemiology, Institute of Inflammation and Repair, Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre (MAHSC), University of Manchester; UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Manchester Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, Central Manchester National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust, MAHSC, Manchester; Department of Physiotherapy, and Department of Rheumatology, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Salford, UK; Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
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