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Screening for Action Tremor in Epidemiological Field Surveys: Assessing the Reliability of a Semi-Quantitative, Visual, Template-Based Scale for Rating Hand-Drawn Spirals Cover

Screening for Action Tremor in Epidemiological Field Surveys: Assessing the Reliability of a Semi-Quantitative, Visual, Template-Based Scale for Rating Hand-Drawn Spirals

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|Apr 2012

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Figure 1.

(A, B) Two Spirals that Received Ratings of 0.5.

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Figure 2.

(A, B) Two Spirals that Received Ratings of 1.0.

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Figure 3.

(A, B) Two Spirals that Received Ratings of 1.5.

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Figure 4.

(A, B) Two Spirals that Received Ratings of 2.

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Figure 5.

(A, B) Two Spirals that Received Ratings of 3.

Table 1.

Inter-rater Agreement in Ratings of Tremor in the First Set of 548 Spirals

US RaterNeurologist 1 (China)Neuroepidemiologist (China)
US Raterr  =  0.56, p<0.001r  =  0.49, p<0.001
ICC  =  0.68, p<0.001ICC  =  0.49, p<0.001
Neurologist 1 (China)r  =  0.62, p<0.001
ICC  =  0.67, p<0.001
Neuroepidemiologist (China)

[i] Abbreviations: ICC, intraclass correlation coefficient; r, Spearman's correlation coefficient.

Table 2.

Inter-rater Agreement in Ratings of Tremor in Second Set of 200 Spirals

US RaterNeurologist 1 (China)Neurologist 2 (China)Neuroepidemiologist (China)
US raterr  =  0.74, p<0.001r  =  0.67, p<0.001r  =  0.73, p<0.001
ICC  =  0.79, p<0.001ICC  =  0.70, p<0.001ICC  =  0.77, p<0.001
Neurologist 1 (China)r  =  0.78, p<0.001r  =  0.91, p<0.001
ICC  =  0.81, p<0.001ICC  =  0.92, p<0.001
Neurologist 2 (China)r  =  0.87, p<0.001
ICC  =  0.89, p<0.001
Neuroepidemiologist (China)

[i] Abbreviations: ICC, intraclass correlation coefficient; r, Spearman's correlation coefficient.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/tohm.88 | Journal eISSN: 2160-8288
Language: English
Submitted on: Jun 15, 2011
Accepted on: Jul 7, 2011
Published on: Apr 16, 2012
Published by: Columbia University Libraries/Information Services
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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© 2012 Elan D. Louis, Qianhua Zhao, Haijiao Meng, Ding Ding, published by Columbia University Libraries/Information Services
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