• Dr. Giri P V
• Nitin Madhav Kamat. T

Abstract: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by joint swelling, joint tenderness, and destruction of synovial joints, leading to severe disability and premature mortality. Rheumatologists face unique challenges in discriminating between rheumatologic and non-rheumatologic disorders with similar manifestations, and in discriminating among rheumatologic disorders with shared features. In Ayurvedic classics the chronic inflammatory joint diseases are classified under different terminologies like Vatasonita, Amavata, Sandhigata vata, are the important classification /diagnosis in comparison to Rheumatoid Arthritis. In addition to these three terminologies, kadeesoola, sandhisoola etc also considered by some physicians. Two individuals using identical methodology on identical samples (reproducibility) to obtain the same result. The objective of the study was to find out the inter-rater reliability in diagnosing the joint disorders using Ayurvedic terminologies. Cohen's κ was run to determine if there was agreement between two physicians judgement on 91 patients. There was fair agreement between the two physicians judgements, κ = .349 (95% CI, .300 to .886), p < .0005

Inter –rater reliability, Cohen's κ, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Vatasonita, Amavata,Sandhigata vata

"INTER – RATER AGREEMENT FOR RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS WITH AYURVEDIC CLASSIFICATIONS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.482-485, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904I79.pdf

"INTER – RATER AGREEMENT FOR RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS WITH AYURVEDIC CLASSIFICATIONS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp482-485, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904I79.pdf