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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Muscle Nerve. 2010 Aug;42(2):157–164. doi: 10.1002/mus.21661

Table 2.

Agreement between Diagnosis Elicited from Two Evaluations of Individual Study Physicians as Compared to Confirmed Σ 5 NC Abnormality*

Physician N (of 24) Agreement Between Visits
Visit 1 Visit 2
Correct
Dx
Under
Dx
Over
Dx
Correct
Dx
Under
Dx
Over
Dx
Kappa Z p

Comparison of Individual Physician Dx to Σ 5 NC nds ≥ 95th

1 17 4 3 17 3 4 0.45 2.98 0.0015
2 15 3 6 17 2 5 0.49 3.16 0.0008
3 18 2 4 16 3 5 0.45 2.91 0.0018
4 17 3 4 14 2 8 0.60 4.02 <0.0001
5 13 4 7 13 5 6 0.58 3.91 <0.0001
6 17 2 5 19 2 3 0.38 2.48 0.0066
7 14 5 5 18 5 1 0.35 2.45 0.0072
8 15 8 1 17 4 3 0.33 2.15 0.0157
9 22 2 0 19 2 3 0.53 4.13 <0.0001
10 14 1 9 12 1 11 0.84 4.69 <0.0001
11 13 3 8 15 2 7 0.40 2.50 0.0063
12 17 3 4 19 2 3 0.59 3.87 <0.0001

Median 16.0 3.0 4.5 17.0 2.0 4.5 0.47 3.07
SD 2.6 1.8 2.6 2.4 1.3 2.7 0.14 0.82
Range 13 – 22 1 – 8 0 – 9 12 – 19 1 – 5 1 – 11 0.33 – 0.84 2.15 – 4.69
*

The full table with comparison of individual physician signs and individual physician symptoms to Σ 5 NC nds is given in supplementary material.