Reliability of Assessing Hand Osteoarthritis on Digital Photographs and Associations With Radiographic and Clinical Findings.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the reliability and construct validity of an atlas for grading hand osteoarthritis (OA) on photographs in a separate younger community-dwelling population than the development cohort.

Methods

Participants were community-dwelling adults (ages ≥50 years) in North Staffordshire, UK with hand pain or hand problems in the last year who attended a research clinic. High-quality photographs were taken in a standardized position. A photographic atlas was used to score hand joints (second and third distal interphalangeal [DIP], second and third proximal interphalangeal [PIP], and first carpometacarpal [CMC] joints) and joint groups (DIP, PIP, and CMC joints) for OA on a 0-3 scale. Hand radiographs were graded for OA using the Kellgren/Lawrence (K/L) grading sy

SUBMITTER: Marshall M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4153954 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature