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ArticleJournal of chiropractic medicine2023

Inter-Examiner Agreement of the National Upper Cervical Chiropractic Association Analysis of the Atlas Subluxation Complex in a 3-View Upper Cervical Radiographic Series.

Jordan Landholm-Duvall, D Gordon Hasick, Harrison Ndetan, John F Hart, Marshall Dickholtz, Craig P Lapenski

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Article in Journal of chiropractic medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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6 authors.

Jordan Landholm-DuvallUpper Cervical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
D Gordon HasickUpper Cervical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Harrison NdetanDepartment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Texas Health Science Center, Tyler, Texas.
John F HartHart Research Consulting, Greenville, South Carolina.
Marshall DickholtzUpper Cervical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Craig P LapenskiUpper Cervical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Objective: The purpose of this study was to measure the inter-examiner agreement between radiograph markings of 2 National Upper Cervical Chiropractic Association board-certified chiropractors. Methods: Two chiropractic examiners who had standardized training marked and analyzed 254 conventional orthogonal radiographic film sets. The level of agreement and potential biases in their measurements were assessed using intraclass correlation coefficients for absolute agreement and Bland-Altman plot analyses. Results: There was 96.1% agreement between the examiners in the measurements of the side of atlas laterality and 94.5% for atlas rotation. The intraclass correlation coefficient was 0.95 (95% CI, 0.93-0.96) for atlas laterality and 0.92 (95% CI, 0.89-0.94) for atlas rotation. The mean difference in the measurement between the 2 examiners was -0.11, Conclusion: Results of this study show almost perfect agreement between 2 trained chiropractic examiners, with no apparent proportional bias in the analysis of conventional orthogonal radiographic film sets.

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Cervical VertebraeChiropracticDiagnostic ImagingRadiographyReproducibility of Results

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PMID37645000
PMCPMC10461146

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