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Diagnosis > Diagnostic Errors > Observer Variation
Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services > Health Services > Medical Errors > Diagnostic Errors > Observer Variation
Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation > Quality of Health Care > Epidemiologic Factors > Bias > Observer Variation
... > Health Occupations > Health Services Administration > Quality of Health Care > Epidemiologic Factors > Bias > Observer Variation
... > Health Occupations > Medicine > Public Health > Epidemiologic Factors > Bias > Observer Variation
... > Population Characteristics > Health > Public Health > Epidemiologic Factors > Bias > Observer Variation
Environment and Public Health > Public Health > Epidemiologic Factors > Bias > Observer Variation

Preferred term

Observer Variation  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • The failure by the observer to measure or identify a phenomenon accurately, which results in an error. Sources for this may be due to the observer's missing an abnormality, or to faulty technique resulting in incorrect test measurement, or to misinterpretation of the data. Two varieties are inter-observer variation (the amount observers vary from one another when reporting on the same material) and intra-observer variation (the amount one observer varies between observations when reporting more than once on the same material).

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Bias, Observer
  • Observer Bias

In other languages

  • Biais de l'observateur

    French

  • Biais dû à l'observateur
  • Biais dus à l'observateur
  • Biais observateur
  • Variation liée à l'observateur

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