Interrater agreement for Critical Care EEG Terminology.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The interpretation of critical care electroencephalography (EEG) studies is challenging because of the presence of many periodic and rhythmic patterns of uncertain clinical significance. Defining the clinical significance of these patterns requires standardized terminology with high interrater agreement (IRA). We sought to evaluate IRA for the final, published American Clinical Neurophysiology Society (ACNS)-approved version of the critical care EEG terminology (2012 version). Our evaluation included terms not assessed previously and incorporated raters with a broad range of EEG reading experience.

Methods

After reviewing a set of training slides, 49 readers independently completed a Web-based test consisting of 11 identical questions for each of 37 EEG samples (40

SUBMITTER: Gaspard N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4879939 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature