Reliability and Validity of Computer-Assisted Estimates of Tanner-Whitehouse Skeletal Maturity (CASAS): Comparison with the Manual Method

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Three observers rated 57 X-rays from normal healthy children in Project HeartBeat! twice each by CASAS, the computer-assisted version of the TW2 RUS bone age method. Differences between duplicates of individual bone ratings which reached or exceeded 1.0 unit (or 1 stage) were 5% within observer and 8% between observers for CASAS, and 17 and 33%, respectively, for the unassisted MANUAL method. In children followed longitudinally, CASAS scores increased much more steadily than MANUAL scores, largely because the bones were rated, in the former system, on a continuous rather than a discrete-integer scale. We conclude that CASAS is a more reliable and probably a more valid estimator of skeletel maturity than the MANUAL version of the TW2 RUS method.

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Journal ID (publisher-id): HRE

Journal ID (nlm-ta): Horm Res Paediatr

Journal ID (doi): 10.1159/issn.1663-2818

Title: Hormone Research in Paediatrics

Publisher: S. Karger AG

ISSN (Print): 1663-2818

ISSN (Electronic): 1663-2826

Publication date Subscription-year: 1994

Publication date (Print): 1994

Publication date (Electronic): 05 December 2008

Volume: 42

Issue: 6

Pages: 288-294

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^aWHO Collaborative Centre for Growth and Development, Institutes of Education and Child Health, University of London, UK; ^bEpidemiology Research Center, School of Public Health, University of Texas, Houston, Tex., USA

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Publisher ID: 184211 Other ID: Horm Res 1994;42:288–294

DOI: 10.1159/000184211

PubMed ID: 7698726

SO-VID: 39dcedf2-1268-4601-b27c-6f5743044307

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Date received : 07 April 1994

Date accepted : 09 August 1994

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