A Simplified Method for Assessing Bone Age in Adolescents
Authors' conclusion
The simplified method offers a transparent, standardised, and reproducible approach to adolescent skeletal age assessment.
Study context
- Population
- Hand and wrist radiographs of adolescents referred for short stature but otherwise healthy; Greulich-Pyle (GP) bone age ≥9 years (girls) and ≥11 years (boys)
- Participants
- 117 radiographs
- Exposure
- Simplified method vs Greulich-Pyle atlas
- Outcome
- Agreement of simplified method with GP (experienced raters)
Methodological detailsduplicate readings by experienced and inexperienced raters, Bone age scored independently in two rounds by two paediatric endocrinologists and, for the simplified method, two residents
- Duplicate readings by experienced and inexperienced raters
- Bone age scored independently in two rounds by two paediatric endocrinologists and, for the simplified method, two residents
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Readings within ±1 year of GP
about 91%
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
- Reliability coefficients for both methods
- exceeded 0.9
- Repeatability of simplified method slightly lower than GP but within clinically acceptable limits and close to predefined acceptability thresholds for inexperienced raters
Original publication
A Simplified Method for Assessing Bone Age in Adolescents. Clin Endocrinol (Oxf). Published 15 May 2026. doi:10.
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