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Objective: Assessment of the reliability of Singh’s Index for measurement of osteoporosis between different observers. Material& Methods: It was a cross-sectional validation study, conducted in the Orthopaedics and Radiology Departments, NorthWest General Hospital & Research Centre, Peshawar, Pakistan, involving 120 post-menopausal women from June 2015 to December 2015. X-ray Pelvis was undertaken in all patients. Results: Mean age was 62.91 years ± 9.6 SD. Single measurement was 43%. Overall agreement among the observers was 69.5% with p value .000, which is significant. 95% Confidence interval was 0.587 to 0.779. The kappa value ranged from .171 to .261 with a slight to fair agreement. Conclusion: Singh Index has 69.5% inter-observer reliability.
Key Words: Singh Index , Osteoporosis.
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