Journal article
Interobserver reliability of quantitative muscle sonographic analysis in the critically ill population
A Sarwal, SM Parry, MJ Berry, FC Hsu, MT Lewis, NW Justus, PE Morris, L Denehy, S Berney, S Dhar, MS Cartwright
Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine | WILEY | Published : 2015
Abstract
Objectives - There is growing interest in the use of quantitative high-resolution neuro muscular sonography to evaluate skeletal muscles in patients with critical illness. There is currently considerable methodological variability in the measurement technique of quantitative muscle analysis. The reliability of muscle parameters using different measurement techniques and assessor expertise levels has not been examined in patients with critical illness. The primary objective of this study was to determine the interobserver reliability of quantitative sonographic measurement analyses (thickness and echogenicity) between assessors of different expertise levels and using different techniques for ..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We thank the Center of Medical Ultrasound at Wake Forest School of Medicine and the Departments of Physiotherapy and Intensive Care at Austin Health for ultrasound support. We also thank the faculty and staff working in the intensive care units at each institute for providing excellent care to our patients and supporting clinical research and Adela Larimore for assistance with manuscript preparation and submission. Aarti Sarwal received administrative support to conduct this study as a research scholar with the Translational Science Institute, funded by National Center for Research Resources/National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant M01 RR007122. Sanjay Dhar received honoraria from the American College of Chest Physicians and American Thoracic Society for teaching sonography courses. Selina M. Parry has funding through the National Health and Medical Research Council Dora Lush Scholarship (grant 103923), Society of Critical Care Medicine, Austin Medical Research Foundation, and Intensive Care Foundation of Australia. Linda Denehy has grants to study intensive care rehabilitation and neuromuscular sonography from the Austin Medical Research Foundation and Intensive Care Foundation of Australia. Sue Berney has funding through the National Health and Medical Research Council Early Career Fellowship (grant 1037283), Austin Medical Research Foundation, and Intensive Care Foundation of Australia. Peter E. Morris and Michael J. Berry have funding through NIH/National Institute of Nursing Research/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute grant R01NR011186-01. Michael S. Cartwright has funding through NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke grant 1K23NS062892.