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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Nov 12.
Published in final edited form as: Mov Disord. 2012 Oct 31;27(13):1683–1685. doi: 10.1002/mds.25181

Table 2.

UMSARS motor examination: Intrarater reliability. κ (w) over all centres; 0– 0.20, slight agreement; 0.21– 0.40, fair agreement; 0.41– 0.60, moderate agreement; 0.61– 0.80, substantial agreement; 0.81–1.00, excellent agreement.

Item κ (w)
SR JR Overall
  1 Facial expression 0.75 0.71 0.74
  2 Speech 0.84 0.75 0.79
  3 Ocular motor dysfunction 0.57 0.44 0.50
  4 Tremor at rest 0.73 0.73 0.73
  5 Action tremor 0.82 0.69 0.76
  6 Increased tone Not applicable
  7 Rapid alternating movement of hands 0.68 0.60 0.64
  8 Finger tapping 0.78 0.74 0.76
  9 Leg agility 0.80 0.60 0.71
10 Heel-Shin test 0.84 0.82 0.83
11 Arising from chair 0.96 0.97 0.96
12 Posture 0.86 0.84 0.85
13 Body sway 0.90 0.91 0.91
14 Gait 0.89 0.90 0.89
ICC of UMSARS II score - 1st examination 0.98 0.97 0.98

Abbreviations: ICC … intraclass coefficient; κ (w) … weighted kappa; SR … senior rater; JR … junior rater; UMSARS … unified MSA rating scale.