Different thresholds for detecting osteophytes and joint space narrowing exist between the site investigators and the centralized reader in a multicenter knee osteoarthritis study-data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative

Skeletal Radiology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 179-186

  Guermazi, Ali ^a   Hunter, David J ^b,c   Li, Ling ^b   Benichou, Olivier ^d   Eckstein, Felix ^e,f   Kwoh, C Kent ^g   Nevitt, Michael ^h   Hayashi, Daichi ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW ENGLAND BAPTIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

^e PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^f Chondrometrics GmbH   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Centralized reading; Knee; Osteoarthritis; Radiography; X ray

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTHROPATHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KELLGREN LAWRENCE GRADING; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; KNEE RADIOGRAPHY; LATERAL JOINT SPACE NARROWING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIAL JOINT SPACE NARROWING; MEDICAL EXPERT; OBSERVER VARIATION; OSTEOARTHRITIS RESEARCH SOCIETY INTERNATIONL GRADING; OSTEOPHYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RADIOLOGIST; SCORING SYSTEM; STAFF TRAINING;

HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; KNEE JOINT; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; OSTEOARTHRITIS, KNEE; OSTEOPHYTE; PREVALENCE; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84856960934     PISSN: 03642348     EISSN: 14322161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00256-011-1142-2     Document Type: Article

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