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What is the inter-rater reliability and validity of the ASA-PS scale in clinical practice?
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ASA-PS supports preoperative risk assessment with caution; retrospective data leaves open standardization to boost reliability.
What is the inter-rater reliability and validity of the ASA-PS scale in clinical practice?
The ASA-PS scale is a valid marker of preoperative health status, though its inter-rater reliability is only moderate due to inherent subjectivity.
Sankar et al. (2014) studied this question.
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