Reliability measurement with unreliable method

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Payam Eghtesadi-Araghi et al. Anesth Analg. 2006 Feb.

. 2006 Feb;102(2):647-8; author reply 648.

doi: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000190743.30750.88.

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