Interobserver reliability of quantitative muscle sonographic analysis in the critically ill population

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1191-1200

  Sarwal, Aarti ^a   Parry, Selina M ^b,c   Berry, Michael J ^d   Hsu, Fang Chi ^a   Lewis, Marc T ^d   Justus, Nicholas W ^d   Morris, Peter E ^a   Denehy, Linda ^c   Berney, Sue ^b   Dhar, Sanjay ^a   Cartwright, Michael S ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical care weakness; Grayscale analysis; Muscle; Musculoskeletal ultrasound; Sonography

Indexed keywords

DIAPHRAGMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MUSCLE; RELIABILITY; TRACE ANALYSIS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

CRITICAL CARE; GRAY SCALE; INTEROBSERVER RELIABILITY; INTRACLASS CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIMARY OBJECTIVE; REGION OF INTEREST;

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

CRITICAL ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAPHRAGM; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; OBSERVER VARIATION; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

CRITICAL ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAPHRAGM; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; QUADRICEPS MUSCLE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84933533872     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: 15509613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/ultra.34.7.1191     Document Type: Article

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