OBJECTIVE To assess the intra-rater and inter-rater reliability for measuring femoral anteversion angle (FAA) by a radiographic method using three-dimensional computed tomography reconstruction (3D-CT). METHODS The study included 82 children who presented with intoeing gait. 3D-CT data taken between 2006 and 2014 were retrospectively reviewed. FAA was measured by 3D-CT. FAA is defined as the ...

The aim of the current study is to assess the intra-rater and inter-rater reliability of real time ultrasound scanning in measuring static humeral head position. Real time ultrasound scanning, an experimental clinical measurement, was used to record measurements of the humeral head position in a sample of (20) healthy volunteers [9 male, 11 female]. While the participant was seated in a standar...

BACKGROUND The Southampton Hand Assessment Procedure (SHAP) is currently used in the adult population for evaluating the functionality of impaired or prosthetic hands. The SHAP cannot be used for children because of the relatively larger size of the objects used to perform SHAP tasks and unknown clinimetric properties. The aims of this study were to adapt the SHAP for use in children (SHAP-C), ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the reliability of the Assessment of Capacity for Myoelectric Control (ACMC) in children and adults with a myoelectric prosthetic hand. DESIGN Intra-rater and inter-rater reliability estimated from reported assessments by 3 different raters. PATIENTS A sample of convenience of 26 subjects (11 males, 15 females) with upper limb reduction deficiency or amputation and myoe...

OBJECTIVE To assess the inter-rater and intra-rater reliability and validity of the original and a modified Medical Research Council scale for testing muscle strength in radial palsy. DESIGN Prospective, randomized validation study. PATIENTS Thirty-one patients with peripheral paresis of radial innervated forearm muscles were included. METHODS Wrist extension, finger extension and grip st...

In this contribution, we report on an effort to annotate German data with information relevant to opinion inference. Such information has previously been referred to as effect or couched in terms of eventevaluation functors. We extend the theory and present an extensive scheme that combines both approaches and thus extends the set of inference-relevant predicates. Using these guidelines to anno...

To what extent do people achieve accuracy in judging others’ situations? Based on interpersonal perception models, we propose that ex-situ raters may attain accuracy by judging the psychological characteristics of a situation that in-situ raters have experienced according to a normative and distinctive characteristics profile. Biesanz’ Social Accuracy Model (SAM) provides a flexible crossed-eff...

Information retrieval studies that involve searching the Internet or marking phrases usually lack a well-defined number of negative cases. This prevents the use of traditional interrater reliability metrics like the kappa statistic to assess the quality of expert-generated gold standards. Such studies often quantify system performance as precision, recall, and F-measure, or as agreement. It can...

PURPOSE The purpose of this research was to investigate the reliability, responsiveness, and concurrent validity of the Kansas University Standing Balance Scale (KUSBS). METHODS For the reliability study, the KUSBS was used twice on 2 separate days with 23 inpatient rehabilitation patients. To assess responsiveness and concurrent validity, a retrospective chart review of 25 patients was perfo...