Are brace prescribers following standards?

Table 1 Agreement between actual brace prescription and defined criteria (QSN and SRS).

	QSN immediate prescription criteria		SRS therapeutic inclusion criteria
	Risser [0-3] Cobb [30° - 45° ]		Risser [0-2] Cobb [25° - 40° ]
	yes	no	yes	no	Total
Actual brace prescription
yes	36	34^b	37	33^b	70
no	24^a	227	17^a	234	251
Total	60	261	54	267	321
Kappa	k=0.441; p<0.001		k=0.502; p<0.001

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