How many patients are required to provide a high level of reliability in the Japanese version of the CARE Measure? A secondary analysis.

Takaharu MatsuhisaNoriyuki TakahashiMuneyoshi AomatsuKunihiko TakahashiJo NishinoNobutaro BanStewart W Mercer

Published in: BMC family practice (2018)

The Japanese CARE Measure appears to reliably discriminate between doctors with a feasible number of patient-ratings per doctor. Further studies involving larger numbers of doctors with a multicenter analysis are required to confirm the results of the current study, which was conducted at a single institution.

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