Degenerative findings in lumbar spine MRI: an inter-rater reliability study involving three raters.

ABSTRACT:

Background

For diagnostic procedures to be clinically useful, they must be reliable. The interpretation of lumbar spine MRI scans is subject to variability and there is a lack of studies where reliability of multiple degenerative pathologies are rated simultaneously. The objective of our study was to determine the inter-rater reliability of three independent raters evaluating degenerative pathologies seen with lumbar spine MRI.

Methods

Fifty-nine people, 35 patients with low back pain (LBP) or LBP and leg pain and 24 people without LBP or leg pain, received an MRI of the lumbar spine. Three raters (one radiologist and two chiropractors) evaluated the MRIs for the presence and severity of eight degenerative spinal pathologies using a standardized format: Spondylolisthesis, sc

SUBMITTER: Doktor K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7011264 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature