Equine Internal Medicine Resident University College Dublin Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Disclosure(s):
Claudia Gilders: No financial relationships to disclose
Inter- and intra-rater reliability with grading systems is important for many reasons such as validity in research, discussions amoungst colleagues and repeat examinations. The grading of Equine Gastric Glandular Disease lesions remains a controversial topic. A previously recommended system of descriptive terminology has shown poor inter-rater reliability. Other scoring systems have been created and recently a modified 0-4 grading system has shown good inter- and intra-rater reliability. This study was designed to compare the descriptive terminology system with the 0-4 grading system. The hypothesis was that there would be increased inter-and intra-rater reliability with the 0-4 grading system.
