Being reliable: issues in determining the reliability and making sense of observations of adults with congenital deafblindness?
This study highlights the need to exercise caution when ascertaining the reliability of observational studies and demonstrates the value in using multiple methods for calculating inter-rater reliability. The paper concludes with an examination of the potential merits of using consensus coding in observational studies of interactions with people with congenital deafblindness or profound intellectual and multiple disabilities.
High-throughput polychromatic flow cytometry and HCA are capable of objective, time and cost efficient assessment of the individual T-cell immune profile in different stages of coronary heart disease and have broad applications in clinical trials.