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Table 2 Inter-observer reliability of total and segmental FAt Spondyloarthritis Spine Scores

From: The FAt Spondyloarthritis Spine Score (FASSS): development and validation of a new scoring method for the evaluation of fat lesions in the spine of patients with axial spondyloarthritis

 

Exercise 1 (n = 58)

Exercise 2

Patients from Exercise 1 re-read (n = 58)

New patients (n = 77)

All patients (n = 135)

 

Baseline

Change

Baseline

Change

Baseline

Change

Baseline

Change

Total

0.89 (0.81 to 0.93)

0.67 (0.51 to 0.80)

0.96 (0.93 to 0.98)

0.83 (0.73 to 0.90)

0.95 (0.93 to 0.97)

0.89 (0.81 to 0.93)

0.96 (0.94 to 0.97)

0.86 (0.80 to 0.90)

Cervical

0.73 (0.39 to 0.87)

0.09 (-0.16 to 0.34)

0.88 (0.81 to 0.93)

0.59 (0.39 to 0.73)

0.82 (0.71 to 0.87)

0.31 (0.09 to 0.49)

0.84 (0.78 to 0.88)

0.37 (0.22 to 0.51)

Thoracic

0.85 (0.76 to 0.91)

0.83 (0.72 to 0.89)

0.93 (0.88 to 0.96)

0.85 (0.76 to 0.91)

0.96 (0.93 to 0.97)

0.86 (0.76 to 0.92)

0.95 (0.93 to 0.96)

0.86 (0.80 to 0.90)

Lumbar

0.76 (0.63 to 0.85)

0.29 (0.03 to 0.51)

0.95 (0.91 to 0.97)

0.75 (0.60 to 0.85)

0.87 (0.81 to 0.91)

0.85 (0.78 to 0.90)

0.91 (0.87 to 0.93)

0.82 (0.76 to 0.87)

  1. Data presented as mean (95% confidence interval). Inter-observer reliability of total and segmental FAt Spondyloarthritis Spine Score as assessed by two readers in Exercise 1 (n = 58) and Exercise 2 (n = 135), and the 77 new patients included in Exercise 2. The 58 patients from Exercise 1 were nested randomly within the new 77 patients included in Exercise 2.