background: los angeles classification is widely adopted as a means of unifying endoscopic observation for gerd. we assessed the inter- and intra-observer variability of la classification. materials and methods: two-hundred fifty-four still images of the lower esophagus taken by an expert endoscopist (rm) were randomly selected and presented to 9 gastroenterologists (2 females, 6 experts, 3 tra...

results inter-observer agreement of the pathology scores based on nas scoring system was acceptable for steatosis, lobular inflammation, and fibrosis, but not for hepatocyte ballooning. the intra-observer agreement was acceptable in all scales, with lowest intra-class correlation observed for lobular inflammation. materials and methods the anonymous liver biopsy samples of 100 consecutive nafld...

results the interobserver agreement for sonographic descriptors changed between fair and substantial. the highest agreement was detected for mass orientation (κ=0.66). the lowest agreement was found in the margin (κ=0.33). the interobserver agreement for bi-rads final category was found as fair (κ=0.35). the intraobserver agreement for sonographic descriptors changed between substantial and alm...

conclusion investigative assessment of breast us by residents is inadvisable. we recommend continued professional resident training to improve the degree of agreement and performance. results for the faculty members, fair-to-good agreement was obtained in all descriptors and final assessment, while for residents, poor-to-moderate agreement was obtained. the areas under the roc curves were 0.78 ...

BACKGROUND Respiratory rate (RR) is an important vital sign which is strongly correlated with in-hospital mortality. At the same time, RR is the most likely vital sign to be omitted when assessing a patient. We believe that one reason for this could be the difficulty in measure the RR, since it is not read off a monitor, but counted manually. Also there is the possibility of assessment bias and...

We read with great interest the recent paper by Senent et al. and the accompanying editorial on the reproducibility of WHO 2008 criteria and inter-observer agreement regarding the assessment of dysplasia for diagnosis and classification of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). The reproducibility of any composite criteria is mainly based on both the constituting components and the precise manner in ...