Reliability of patient self-reports to clinician-assigned functional scores of inclusion body myositis
Roy B, Zubair A, Petschke K, O'Connor KC, Paltiel AD, Nowak RJ. Reliability of patient self-reports to clinician-assigned functional scores of inclusion body myositis. Journal Of The Neurological Sciences 2022, 436: 120228. PMID: 35344793, DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2022.120228.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsIBM functional rating scaleInclusion body myositisBody myositisInterrater correlation coefficientSporadic inclusion body myositisFine motor skillsImpaired ambulationFleiss kappa statisticFunctional scoresHand functionDisease progressionWhite CaucasiansClinical practiceNatural history dataRating ScaleKappa statisticsMyositisScoresMotor skillsIndividual questionsSubstantial agreementCorrelation coefficient analysisReliable indicatorParticipantsAmbulation