Multifactorial assessment of measurement errors affecting intraoral quantitative sensory testing reliability.

ABSTRACT:

Background and purpose (aims)

Measurement error of intraoral quantitative sensory testing (QST) has been assessed using traditional methods for reliability, such as intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs). Most studies reporting QST reliability focused on assessing one source of measurement error at a time, e.g., inter- or intra-examiner (test-retest) reliabilities and employed two examiners to test inter-examiner reliability. The present study used a complex design with multiple examiners with the aim of assessing the reliability of intraoral QST taking account of multiple sources of error simultaneously.

Methods

Four examiners of varied experience assessed 12 healthy participants in two visits separated by 48h. Seven QST procedures to determine sensory thresholds were u

SUBMITTER: Moana-Filho EJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5598789 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature