The Reliability of Pharyngeal High Resolution Manometry with Impedance for Derivation of Measures of Swallowing Function in Healthy Volunteers

Table 1

Intrarater reliability of 1st analysis versus 2nd analysis for the Primary and Repeat Studies. Data are average ICC [range ICC].

	ICC for 1st analysis versus 2nd analysis
	Primary Study	Repeat Study
Contractility
PhPP	0.98 [0.90–1.00]	0.93 [0.67–1.00]
PhCI	0.97 [0.91–1.00]	0.87 [0.51–0.98]
hPP	0.94 [0.84–0.99]	0.91 [0.71–0.98]
UBP	1.00 [1.00-1.00]	1.00 [0.99–1.00]
UPP	0.93 [0.75–1.00]	0.98 [0.89–1.00]
UCI	0.88 [0.71–0.96]	0.99 [0.97–1.00]
Intrabolus pressure
PhIBP	1.00 [1.00–1.00]	0.97 [0.88–1.00]
hIBP	0.98 [0.95–1.00]	0.99 [0.97–0.99]
UIRP	0.99 [0.97–1.00]	1.00 [0.99–1.00]
Flow timing
PhDCL	0.96 [0.79–1.00]	0.97 [0.91–1.00]
hDCL	0.85 [0.29–0.99]	0.93 [0.83–0.99]
hFI	0.99 [0.99–1.00]	0.99 [0.96–1.00]
Global function
Swallow Risk Index	0.99 [0.94–1.00]	0.94 [0.80–1.00]