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Table 5 Methodological quality of the measurement property “reliability” by the COSMIN and quality criteria of the measurement properties per assessment

From: Measurement properties of oral health assessments for non-dental healthcare professionals in older people: a systematic review

Assessment

Study

Reliability

Internal-consistency

Intra-rater reliability

Inter-rater reliability

Test-retest reliability

Raters

M

Q

M

Q

M

Q

M

Q

ROAG

Andersson et al. (2002a) [18]

    

Gooda

?/−

(κ/κw: 0.45-0.84)b

  

Nurse/Dental hygienist

Ribeiro et al. (2014) [37]

  

Good

+/−

w: 0.38-0.88)

    

Community health workers

MDS

Arvidson-Bufano et al. (1996) [28]

    

Poora

N.A.

  

Nurse/Dentist

Blank et al. (1996) [27]

    

Poora

N.A.

  

Nurse/Dentist

Cohen-Mansfield (2002) [28]

    

Poora

N.A.

  

Geriatricians/Dentist

Hawes et al. (1995) [31]

    

Poor

N.A.

  

Nurses

MDS-HC

Morris et al. (1997) [35]

    

Good

+/−

w: 0.57-0.7)

  

Nurses

OHAT

Chalmers et al. (2005) [17]

  

Fair

+ (ICC = 0.78)

? (κ: 0.51-0.80)b

Fair

+ (ICC = 0.74)

? (κ: 0.48-0.80)b

Poor

N.A.

Nurses

Simpelaere et al. (2016) [38]

  

Poor

N.A.

Fair

+ (ICC = 0.96)

? (κ: 0.83-1.00)

Fair

+ (ICC = 0.81 & 0.78)

? (κ: 0.14-0.91)

Speech pathologists

THROAT

Dickinson et al.(2001) [19]

  

Good

+/−

w: 0-0.96)

Gooda

+/−

w: 0.46-0.97)

  

Dental hygienist,/ stroke specialist nurse and staff Nurse

DHR

Fjeld et al. (2017) [29]

  

Fair

+

(κ: 0.7-0.8)

Faira

?

(κ: 0.4-0.8)

  

Dental hygienist and Nurse

MPS

Henriksen et al. (1999) [32]

  

Poor

N.A.

Poora

N.A.

  

Dentist, 2 Dental Hygienist, and Nurse

BOHSE

Kayser-Jones et al. (1995) [33]

    

Faira

-(r: 0.4-0.68)

? (κ: -0.02-0.82)b

Fair

+/−

(r: 0.79-0.88)

Dentist and Nurses

Lin et al. (1999) [34]

    

Faira

?

(κ: -0.018-0.519)b

  

Dentist and Nurses

OAS

Yanagisawa et al. (2017) [39]

Poor

N.A

  

Fair

? (κ: 0.25-0.90)

+/- (ICC: 0.54-0.98)

  

Dental professionals and care workers

  1. M = Assessment of methodological quality: “excellent”, “good”, “fair”, “poor” by COSMIN. Q = criteria for measurement properties; + = positive rating;? = indeterminate rating; − = negative rating.
  2. a Inter-rater reliability measurements have been performed by two different professions.
  3. bOnly kappas are reported instead of percent agreement because this reflects better methodological quality according to the COSMIN criteria
  4. N.A. Not applicable was reported for the quality criteria when an article had poor methodological quality.