Reliability and Agreement of Different Spine Fracture Classification Systems: Methodologic Issue

We were interested in Pishnamaz et  al's1 article in a recent issue of WORLD NEUROSURGERY. The authors' purpose was to investigate and compare the intraobserver and interobserver agreement of the Load Sharing Classification (LSC), Thoracolumbar Injury Classification System (TLICS), and AOSpine Thoracolumbar Spine Injury Classificati on System.1 Intraobserver and interobserver reliability was interpreted using the kappa statistic. On the basis of their results, the intraobserver and interobserver reliability considering the LSC total score (k = 0.26/0.22) and TLICS total score (k = 0.41, 0.23) was fair and moderate/fair, respe ctively.
Source: World Neurosurgery - Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research