Interobserver Agreement Among Uveitis Experts on Uveitic Diagnoses: The Standardization of Uveitis Nomenclature Experience.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To evaluate the interobserver agreement among uveitis experts on the diagnosis of the specific uveitic disease.

Design

Interobserver agreement analysis.

Methods

Five committees, each comprised of 9 individuals and working in parallel, reviewed cases from a preliminary database of 25 uveitic diseases, collected by disease, and voted independently online whether the case was the disease in question or not. The agreement statistic, κ, was calculated for the 36 pairwise comparisons for each disease, and a mean κ was calculated for each disease. After the independent online voting, committee consensus conference calls, using nominal group techniques, reviewed all cases not achieving supermajority agreement (>75%) on the diagnosis in the online voting to attempt to

SUBMITTER: Jabs DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8489730 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature