Journal
VETERINARY JOURNAL
Volume 188, Issue 2, Pages 171-177Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.tvjl.2010.05.011
Keywords
Clinical grading system; Horses; Obel score; Visual analogue scale; Generalizability theory; Lameness
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- World Horse Welfare
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This study compared three subjective scoring systems used to assess lameness associated with equine laminitis: (1) visual analogue scale, (2) Obel score and (3) clinical grading system (CGS). Two groups of 12 observers, consisting of equine veterinarians and final-year veterinary students, scored lameness severity after watching video footage of 14 horses on two occasions. Generalizability theory was used to investigate the reliability of the three systems and the effects of observer experience. Overall reliability across all times and observers was high. Intra-observer reliability was higher than inter-observer reliability for all scoring systems, with student reliability being consistently lower than veterinarians, especially for Obel and CGS. All three methods were reasonably reliable tools for assessing lameness, but they were more limited in the hands of inexperienced observers. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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