Inter-examiner reliability of the Doha agreement meeting classification system of groin pain in male athletes.

ABSTRACT: The Doha agreement classification is used to classify groin pain in athletes. We evaluated the inter-examiner reliability of this classification system. We prospectively recruited 48 male athletes (66 symptomatic sides) with groin pain between 10-2017 and 03-2020 at a sports medicine hospital in Qatar. Two examiners (23 and 10 years of clinical experience) performed history taking, and a standardized clinical examination blinded to each other's findings. Examiners classified groin pain using the Doha agreement terminology (adductor-, inguinal-, iliopsoas-, pubic-, hip-related groin pain, or other causes of groin pain). Multiple entities were ranked in order of perceived clinical importance. Each side was classified separately for bilateral groin pain. Inter-examiner reliability was calcula

SUBMITTER: Heijboer WMP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10092143 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature