Are distal radius fracture classifications reproducible? Intra and interobserver agreement

Sao Paulo Medical Journal

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 180-185

  Belloti, João Carlos ^a,b   Tamaoki, Marcel Jun Sugawara ^a   da Silveira Franciozi, Carlos Eduardo ^a   dos Santos, João Baptista Gomes ^a   Balbachevsky, Daniel ^a   Chap Chap, Eduardo ^a   Albertoni, Walter Manna ^a   Faloppa, Flávio ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Universidade Federal de São Paulo ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

Classification; Colles fracture; Radius fractures; Reproducibility of results; Validation studies

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KAPPA STATISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL STUDENT; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHYSICIAN; RADIOLOGIST; RADIUS FRACTURE; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RESIDENT; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; COLLES' FRACTURE; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROGNOSIS; RADIUS FRACTURES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 54149086714     PISSN: 15163180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s1516-31802008000300008     Document Type: Article

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