Reproducibility of multiple-observer scoring of radiologic abnormalities in the hands and wrists of patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

JT, Sharp; GB, Bluhm; A, Brook; AC, Brower; M, Corbett; JL, Decker; HK, Genant; JP, Gofton; N, Goodman; A, Larsen

doi:10.1002/art.1780280104

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Reproducibility of multiple-observer scoring of radiologic abnormalities in the hands and wrists of patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

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Sharp JT

Bluhm GB

Brook A

Abstract

Forty-one coded radiographic films from 16 patients with rheumatoid arthritis were read by 13 observers, using 4 different methods for scoring abnormalities. Although absolute scores differed widely among individual observers, correlation coefficients were greater than 0.850 for approximately 2 of 3...

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