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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 24.
Published in final edited form as: J Rheumatol. 2009 Oct 15;36(12):2819–2829. doi: 10.3899/jrheum.081284

Table 2.

Interrater reliability* of Localized Scleroderma Skin Severity Index (LoSSI) and its domains.

Examiners** Surface Area Erythema Skin Thickness LoSSI
All examiners (n = 14) 0.35 (0.25, 0.49) 0.71 (0.58, 0.84) 0.70 (0.60, 0.80) 0.80 (0.68, 0.91)
Senior examiners (n = 5) 0.44 (0.29, 0.60) 0.68 (0.50, 0.84) 0.74 (0.62, 0.83) 0.83 (0.68, 0.93)
Junior examiners (n = 5) 0.38 (0.24, 0.55) 0.73 (0.57, 0.86) 0.72 (0.60, 0.82) 0.82 (0.67, 0.93)
Clinical fellows (n = 4) 0.24 (0.10, 0.42) 0.76 (0.58, 0.88) 0.65 (0.51, 0.78) 0.85 (0.68, 0.94)
*

Assessed by intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) and reported as ICC (95% confidence interval).

**

Senior examiners have > 10 years, junior examiners ≤ 10 years in practice.

Erythema score reliability was assessed using 20 photographs of skin lesions.