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BACKGROUND: The Questionnaire for Verifying Stroke-Free Status (QVSS) is a practical instrument for confirming absence of previous symptomatic stroke or transient ischemic attack in control subjects participating in stroke research. METHODS: We tested reliability of telephone administration of the QVSS in strokepatients and healthy volunteers aged >/=50 years. For intrarater reliability, one interviewer administered the QVSS twice to the same subjects 8 weeks apart (115 subjects). For interrater reliability, one interviewer administered the QVSS and a different interviewer readministered the QVSS 8 weeks later (107 subjects). Both interviewer and interviewee were masked to responses from the first interview. RESULTS: Intrarater agreement for overall classification of stroke-free status was 0.90 [95% confidence interval (CI), 0.82-0.94], with a kappa of 0.78 (95% CI, 0.67-0.90). Interrater agreement for overall classification was 0.94 (95% CI, 0.88-0.98), with a kappa of 0.89 (95% CI, 0.80-0.97). CONCLUSION: The QVSS is a reliable instrument for telephone interviews in stroke research when applied to adult populations without severe deficits of cognition or verbal communication. Copyright 2004 S. Karger AG, Basel
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