title: Inter-rater reliability of the EEG reading in patients with childhood idiopathic epilepsy.
abstract: The level of agreement in the interpretation of EEG records by different experienced readers working in three child neurology tertiary centers has been evaluated. EEG recordings randomly chosen from patients with idiopathic epilepsy were included. Optimal or suboptimal agreement was found for presence of ictal and interictal discharges. Contrary to ictal discharges, the distribution and location of interictal discharges was not unanimously interpreted and agreement was unsatisfactory when assessing the background activity.
authors.affiliation: Child Neuropsychiatric Unit, University of Insubria, Macchi Foundation Hospital, Varese, Italy.
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Piccinelli
authors.forename: Maurizio
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Viri
authors.forename: Claudio
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zucca
authors.forename: Renato
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Borgatti
authors.forename: Antonino
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Romeo
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Giordano
authors.forename: Umberto
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Balottin
authors.forename: Ettore
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Beghi
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000145:classification / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D011932:Reading; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012189:Retrospective Studies