BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE To provide further insight into the MRI assessment of age-related white matter changes (ARWMCs) with visual rating scales, 3 raters with different levels of experience tested the interrater agreement and comparability of 3 widely used rating scales in a cross-sectional and follow-up setting. Furthermore, the correlation between visual ratings and quantitative volumetric m...

There is a broad spectrum of sleep disturbances observed in Parkinson's disease (PD). A variety of scales have been applied to the evaluation of PD sleep and wakefulness, but only a small number have been assessed specifically for clinimetric properties in the PD population. The movement disorder society has commissioned this task force to examine these scales and to assess their use in PD. A s...

OBJECTIVE To gain a deeper understanding of the content of 4 fear of falling (FOF) rating scales by linking them to the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). DESIGN Linking study according to the ICF linking rules. SETTING Not applicable. PATIENTS Not applicable. METHODS The rating scales were the Falls Efficacy Scale-International (FES-I), the Swedis...

This report describes two rating scales, an Anxiety Scale and an Uncoopera rive Behavior Scale, developed to assess children’s responses to dental stress. The rating procedure is reliable, valid, and easily integrated into clinical or research activities. In the present study, the Method of Paired Comparisons was used to further validate the scales, and to establish interval scaling properties....

While numerical bipolar rating scales may evoke positivity bias, little is known about the corresponding bias in verbal scales. The choice of verbalization middle category lead to response particularly if it not line with scale polarity. Unipolar and seven-category which verbalizations categories matched or did match implemented polarity were investigated randomized experiments using a non-prob...

Abstract Kappa coefficients are commonly used for quantifying reliability on a categorical scale, whereas correlation applied to assess an interval scale. Both types of can be the ordinal rating scales. In this study, we compare seven scales: kappa included Cohen’s kappa, linearly weighted and quadratically kappa; intraclass ICC(3,1), Pearson’s correlation, Spearman’s rho, Kendall’s tau-b. The ...

Background The clinical practice examination (CPX) was introduced in 2010, and the Seoul-Gyeonggi CPX Consortium developed the patient-physician interaction (PPI) assessment tool in 2004. Both institutions use rating scales on classified sections of PPI but differ in their scoring of key components. This study investigated the accuracy of standardized patient scores across rating scales by comp...