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Table 4 Reliability analysis of the SINS among radiation oncologists and spine surgeons

From: Reliability of the Spinal Instability Neoplastic Score (SINS) among radiation oncologists: an assessment of instability secondary to spinal metastases

Profession

Inter-observer agreement

Intra-observer reproducibility

Three-point scale (95% CI)

Binary scale (95% CI)

Three-point scale (95% CI)

Binary scale (95% CI)

Radiation oncologists

0.54 (0.40-0.64)

0.76 (0.56-0.88)

0.65 (0.60-0.71)

0.80 (0.74-0.86)

Spine surgeons (Gold standard)

0.65 (0.50-0.75)

0.83 (0.65-0.93)

n.a.

n.a.