Dataset Information

Inter-rater reliability of manual muscle strength testing in ICU survivors and simulated patients.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The goal of the paper is to determine inter-rater reliability of trained examiners performing standardized strength assessments using manual muscle testing (MMT).

Design, subjects, and setting

The authors report on 19 trainees undergoing quality assurance within a multi-site prospective cohort study.

Intervention

Inter-rater reliability for specially trained evaluators ("trainees") and a reference rater, performing MMT using both simulated and actual patients recovering from critical illness was evaluated.

Measurements and results

Across 26 muscle groups tested by 19 trainee-reference rater pairs, the median (interquartile range) percent agreement and intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC; 95% CI) were: 96% (91, 98%) and 0.98 (0.95, 1.00), respectively. Across all 19 pairs, the ICC (95% CI) for the overall composite MMT score was 0.99 (0.98-1.00). When limited to actual patients, the ICC was 1.00 (95% CI 0.99-1.00). The agreement (kappa; 95% CI) in detecting clinically significant weakness was 0.88 (0.44-1.00).

Conclusions

MMT has excellent inter-rater reliability in trained examiners and is a reliable method of comprehensively assessing muscle strength.

SUBMITTER: Fan E

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2891143 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

ACCESS DATA

Publications

Inter-rater reliability of manual muscle strength testing in ICU survivors and simulated patients.

Fan Eddy E Ciesla Nancy D ND Truong Alex D AD Bhoopathi Vinodh V Zeger Scott L SL Needham Dale M DM

Intensive care medicine 20100306 6

<h4>Objective</h4>The goal of the paper is to determine inter-rater reliability of trained examiners performing standardized strength assessments using manual muscle testing (MMT).<h4>Design, subjects, and setting</h4>The authors report on 19 trainees undergoing quality assurance within a multi-site prospective cohort study.<h4>Intervention</h4>Inter-rater reliability for specially trained evaluators ("trainees") and a reference rater, performing MMT using both simulated and actual patients reco ...[more]

PMID: 20213068

Similar Datasets

Project description:Muscle diffusion tensor imaging (mDTI) is a promising surrogate biomarker in the evaluation of muscular injuries and neuromuscular diseases. Since mDTI metrics are known to vary between different muscles, separation of different muscles is essential to achieve muscle-specific diffusion parameters. The commonly used technique to assess DTI metrics is parameter maps based on manual segmentation (MSB). Other techniques comprise tract-based approaches, which can be performed in a previously defined volume. This so-called volume-based tractography (VBT) may offer a more robust assessment of diffusion metrics and additional information about muscle architecture through tract properties. The purpose of this study was to assess DTI metrics of human calf muscles calculated with two segmentation techniques-MSB and VBT-regarding their inter-rater reliability in healthy and dystrophic calf muscles. 20 healthy controls and 18 individuals with different neuromuscular diseases underwent an MRI examination in a 3T scanner using a 16-channel Torso XL coil. DTI metrics were assessed in seven calf muscles using MSB and VBT. Coefficients of variation (CV) were calculated for both techniques. MSB and VBT were performed by two independent raters to assess inter-rater reliability by ICC analysis and Bland-Altman plots. Next to analysis of DTI metrics, the same assessments were also performed for tract properties extracted with VBT. For both techniques, low CV were found for healthy controls (≤13%) and neuromuscular diseases (≤17%). Significant differences between methods were found for all diffusion metrics except for λ1. High inter-rater reliability was found for both MSB and VBT (ICC ≥ 0.972). Assessment of tract properties revealed high inter-rater reliability (ICC ≥ 0.974). Both segmentation techniques can be used in the evaluation of DTI metrics in healthy controls and different NMD with low rater dependency and high precision but differ significantly from each other. Our findings underline that the same segmentation protocol must be used to ensure comparability of mDTI data.

Dataset Information

Inter-rater reliability of manual muscle strength testing in ICU survivors and simulated patients.

Objective

Design, subjects, and setting

Intervention

Measurements and results

Conclusions

Publications

Inter-rater reliability of manual muscle strength testing in ICU survivors and simulated patients.

Similar Datasets

OmicsDI is part of the ELIXIR infrastructure

Tweets