Inter-rater reliability of the EEG reading in patients with childhood idiopathic epilepsy.
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.
Piccinelli
Paolo
P
Child Neuropsychiatric Unit, University of Insubria, Macchi Foundation Hospital, Varese, Italy.
Viri
Maurizio
M
Zucca
Claudio
C
Borgatti
Renato
R
Romeo
Antonino
A
Giordano
Laura
L
Balottin
Umberto
U
Beghi
Ettore
E
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