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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Clin Epidemiol. 2010 Apr 28;63(10):1159–1163. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2009.12.017

Table 3.

Measures of agreement stratified by race and geographic location (n=116)

PPA* NPA* AR Kappa K (SE)
CHEST PAIN
RACE:
 African American (n=51) 97% 86% 92% 0.84 (0.08)
 European American (n=65) 92% 87% 91% 0.75 (0.10)
GEOGRAPHY
 South (n=87) 95% 88% 93% 0.84 (0.06)
 Non-South (n=29) 89% 80% 86% 0.69 (0.14)

HEART FAILURE
RACE:
 African American (n=51) 100% 87% 92% 0.84 (0.08)
 European American (n=65) 89% 96% 94% 0.85 (0.07)
GEOGRAPHY
 South (n=87) 93% 92% 92% 0.82 (0.06)
 Non-South (n=29) 100% 95% 97% 0.92 (0.07)

CORONARY REVASCULARIZATION
RACE:
 African American (n=51) 71% 98% 94% 0.74 (0.14)
 European American (n=65) 100% 93% 95% 0.90 (0.06)
GEOGRAPHY
 South (n=87) 91% 94% 93% 0.83 (0.07)
 Non-South (n=29) 100% 100% 100% 1.00 (0.00)

MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION
RACE:
 African American (n=51) 76% 97% 90% 0.77 (0.10)
 European American (n=65) 81% 89% 86% 0.71 (0.09)
GEOGRAPHY
 South (n=87) 85% 92% 90% 0.78 (0.07)
 Non-South (n=29) 60% 95% 83% 0.59 (0.16)

PPA: Positive Percent Agreement = [A / (A+C)] * 100 (see Table 1)

NPA: Negative Percent Agreement = [D / (B+D)] * 100 (see Table 1)

AR: Percent Agreement Rate = [(A+D) / (A+B+C+D)] * 100 (see Table 1)

SE: Standard Error of measurement

*

Blinded outcomes were used as reference