Open AccessThe AOSpine thoracolumbar spine injury classification system: A reliability and agreement study
Author(s) -
Parisa Azimi,
Hassan Reza Mohammadi,
Shirzad Azhari,
Pooyan Alizadeh,
Ali Montazeri
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
asian journal of neurosurgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2248-9614
DOI - 10.4103/1793-5482.162703
Subject(s) - medicine , cohen's kappa , kappa , reliability (semiconductor) , injury severity score , physical therapy , emergency medicine , poison control , injury prevention , statistics , philosophy , linguistics , power (physics) , mathematics , physics , quantum mechanics
Recently, AOSpine trauma knowledge forum proposed the AOSpine thoracolumbar injury classification (AOSTLIC) system and suggested that it was reliable. However, reliability data from additional institutions for the AOSTLIC system are not available. This study was to examine the reliability of the AOSTLIC system in patients with thoracolumbar (TL) fractures.