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 indicatorParticipantsAmbulationDemographic and clinical features of inclusion body myositis in north America
Paltiel AD, Ingvarsson E, Lee DK, Leff RL, Nowak RJ, Petschke KD, Richards-Shubik S, Zhou A, Shubik M, O'Connor KC. Demographic and clinical features of inclusion body myositis in north America. Muscle & Nerve 2015, 52: 527-533. PMID: 25557419, PMCID: PMC4869122, DOI: 10.1002/mus.24562.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsInclusion body myositisBody myositisDaily livingComposite functional indexLarger patient populationWeakness of armsDisease durationClinical featuresInitial diagnosisMean agePatient populationFemale ratioClinical managementClinical trialsOutcome measuresFirst symptomsFunctional indexEarly symptomsNatural historyMean timeSelf-report surveyMyositisPatientsSymptomsDiagnosis