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. 2022 Aug 19:2022.6.SPINE22454. doi: 10.3171/2022.6.SPINE22454

TABLE 6.

Intraobserver reproducibility of the AO Spine Upper Cervical Injury Classification System based on years of surgical experience and surgical subspecialty

  Surgical Experience
Surgical Subspecialty
<5 yrs 5–10 yrs 11–20 yrs >20 yrs Orthopedic Spine Surgery Neurosurgery Other Surgery
Overall classification
0.74 (0.17)
0.69 (0.22)
0.69 (0.19)
0.70 (0.16)
0.71 (0.22)
0.69 (0.15)
0.68 (0.13)
Injury location
0.90 (0.12)
0.87 (0.24)
0.89 (0.22)
0.90 (0.13)
0.87 (0.22)
0.89 (0.14)
0.89 (0.08)
Injury type 0.70 (0.20) 0.65 (0.25) 0.67 (0.22) 0.66 (0.18) 0.68 (0.24) 0.66 (0.18) 0.62 (0.14)

Values are given as kappa coefficient (SD).