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. 2020 Jan 13;82(3):337–344. doi: 10.1292/jvms.19-0028

Table 1. Intra-rater and inter-rater reliability of the measure of caudal vena cava (CVC), abdominal aorta (Ao) and velocity time integral (VTI) using Intra-class Correlation Coefficient (ICC) reliability test and coefficient of variation (CV) for intra-rater variability.

CV (%) logarithmic method Single measures ICC
(Absolute agreement)
95% CI
CVC (Intra-rater) 2.60 0.989 0.959–0.997
CVC (Inter-rater) 0.930 0.817–0.980
Ao (Intra-rater) 5.92 0.943 0.797–0.985
Ao (Inter-rater) 0.791 0.529–0.937
VTI (Intra-rater) 3.52 0.989 0.958–0.997
VTI (Inter-rater) 0.979 0.959–0.997