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Exploring interrater disagreement on essential tremor using a standardized tremor elements assessment

Becktepe, J; Gövert, F; Balint, B; Schlenstedt, C; Bhatia, K; Elble, R; Deuschl, G; (2021) Exploring interrater disagreement on essential tremor using a standardized tremor elements assessment. Movement Disorders Clinical Practice , 8 (3) pp. 371-376. 10.1002/mdc3.13150. Green open access

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Abstract

Background: Patients with upper limb action tremor frequently exhibit additional neurological signs of uncertain significance. Clinicians vary in their interpretation, and interrater agreement on the final diagnosis is poor. Objectives: A new clinical tool for assessing the presence or absence of clinical signs that are important in axis-1 classification of tremor patients is introduced: the Standardized Tremor Elements Assessment (STEA). Interrater agreement is determined, and signs leading to disagreement in the final diagnosis are identified. Methods: Three tremor-focussed and one dystonia-focussed movement disorder specialists rated 59 videos of patients with upper limb action tremor syndromes using STEA. Interrater agreements for final diagnosis and STEA items were calculated. Results: Interrater agreement regarding the final diagnosis was higher within the group of tremor specialists and poor between dystonia and tremor specialists. Greater agreement was found for items characterizing tremor than for signs of dystonia. Conclusions: Clinical signs leading to diagnostic disagreement were identified with STEA, and STEA should therefore be useful in future studies of diagnostic disagreement. The thresholds for considering neurological signs as soft versus significant for ataxia, parkinsonism, dystonia, etc. are critically important in tremor classification and must be studied across movement disorder subspecialties, not simply within a pool of tremor specialists.

Type: Article
Title: Exploring interrater disagreement on essential tremor using a standardized tremor elements assessment
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1002/mdc3.13150
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1002/mdc3.13150
Language: English
Additional information: This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Clinical and Movement Neurosciences
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10119968
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