Table 4.

Measurement of the agreement between the evaluations of three doctors assessing the Baseline status one last hour before delivery in the studied infants

Variable	Measurement time	Assessing physician *	Pearson’s correlation coefficient£	P - value
BASELINE	40 to 60 min before delivery	Doctor 1 - Doctor 2	0.848	< 0.0001
		Doctor 2 - Doctor 3	0.862	< 0.0001
		Doctor 1 - Doctor 3	0.869	< 0.0001
	20 to 40 min before delivery	Doctor 1 - Doctor 2	0.941	< 0.0001
		Doctor 2 - Doctor 3	0.842	< 0.0001
		Doctor 1 - Doctor 3	0.945	< 0.0001
	0 to 20 min before delivery	Doctor 1 - Doctor 2	0.875 ǂ	< 0.0001
		Doctor 2 - Doctor 3	0.840 ǂ	< 0.0001
		Doctor 1 - Doctor 3	0.845 ǂ	< 0.0001
Variable			Kramer’s coefficient v	P - value
VARIABILITY	40 to 60 min before delivery		0.274	< 0.0001
	20 to 40 min before delivery		0.041	0.867
	0 to 20 min before delivery		0.230	< 0.0001
ACCEIERATION	40 to 60 min before delivery		0.421	< 0.0001
	20 to 40 min before delivery		0.121	0.285
	0 to 20 min before delivery		0.430	< 0.0001
DECELERATION	40 to 60 min before delivery		0.561	< 0.0001
	20 to 40 min before delivery		0.005	0.998
	0 to 20 min before delivery		0.409	< 0.0001
TYPE OF DECELERATION	40 to 60 min before delivery		0.440	< 0.0001
	20 to 40 min before delivery		0.197	0.207
	0 to 20 min before delivery		0.406	< 0.0001
CATEGORY	40 to 60 min before delivery		0.407	< 0.0001
	20 to 40 min before delivery		0.052	0.923
	0 to 20 min before delivery		0.330	< 0.0001

* Doctor 1: Shamsi Abbas Alizadeh Doctor 2: Fatemeh Abbas Alizadeh Doctor 3: Sanaz Mousavi

£ Pearson’s correlation coefficient ǂ Spearman’s correlation coefficient