Interobserver reliability results for detection and scoring of synovitis components and for the combined PD US score according to the different joints in static images and in patients
Static images | Patients | |||||||||||
Wrist | PIP | Knee | MTP | Wrist | PIP | Knee | MTP | |||||
Mean kappa | Mean kappa | Mean kappa | Mean kappa | Mean observed agreement | Mean kappa | Mean observed agreement | Mean kappa | Mean observed agreement | Mean kappa | Mean observed agreement | Mean kappa | |
SH score (0–3) | 0.51 | 0.69 | 0.60 | 0.54 | 0.5 | 0.60 | 0.7 | 0.52 | 0.51 | 0.5 | 0.76 | 0.50 |
SH detection (yes/no) | 0.35 | 0.74 | 0.81 | 0.64 | 0.23 | 0.2 | 0.42 | 0.34 | ||||
PD score (0–3) | 0.84 | 0.89 | 0.85 | 0.86 | 0.82 | 0.67 | 0.95 | 0.1 | 0.53 | 0.49 | 0.96 | 0.54 |
PD detection (yes/no) | 0.91 | 0.92 | 0.83 | 0.89 | 0.42 | 0.1 | 0.41 | 0.48 | ||||
Combined score* (0–3) | 0.61 | 0.75 | 0.55 | 0.58 | 0.87 | 0.67 | 0.7 | 0.53 | 0.67 | 0.54 | 0.72 | 0.50 |
Combined score* (SH+PD) (yes/no) | 0.61 | NA | 0.62 | NA | 0.43 | 0.3 | 0.41 | 0.39 |
*EULAR-OMERACT combined score.
MTP, metatarsophalangeal; NA, non-applicable; PD, power Doppler signal; PIP, proximal interphalangeal; SH, synovial hypertrophy.