Abstract
The International Academy of Manual/Musculoskeletal Medicine (IAMMM) has completely revised the protocol for reproducibility studies of diagnostic procedures in Manual/Musculoskeletal Medicine (M/M Medicine). The protocol was and is aimed at the practitioners in the field of M/M Medicine. This IAMMM protocol can be used in a very practical way and makes it feasible to perform reproducibility studies equally well in private practices and clinics for M/M Medicine with two or more physicians and as by educational boards of the societies of M/M Medicine. This IAMMM protocol provides practical solutions for sample size calculations in reproducibility studies using kappa statistics. Step by step, many different statistical aspects of reproducibility studies are explained, resulting in a very structured protocol format of how to perform a reproducibility study using overall agreement and the kappa value as statistical outcome.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 451-479 |
Number of pages | 29 |
Journal | Manuelle Medizin |
Volume | 57 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Dec 2019 |
Keywords
- Interobserver agreement
- Prevalence of index condition
- 0
- 50-P-index method
- Sample size
- Kappa value
- EHLERS-DANLOS-SYNDROME
- SACROILIAC JOINTS
- INTEROBSERVER RELIABILITY
- TESTS
- AGREEMENT
- KAPPA
- BACK
- HYPERMOBILITY
- MOBILITY
- SPINE