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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 3.

Agreement between Diagnosis Elicited from Two Evaluations of Individual Study Physicians as Compared to Confirmed 75% Clinical Dx 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 75 % Dx

1 16 3 5 18 1 5 0.45 2.82 0.0024
2 16 1 7 18 0 6 0.41 2.22 0.0134
3 19 0 5 19 0 5 0.24 1.19 0.1178
4 20 0 4 15 0 9 0.50 2.83 0.0023
5 16 1 7 16 2 6 0.48 2.81 0.0025
6 16 1 7 20 0 4 0.37 2.12 0.0170
7 17 2 5 21 2 1 0.09 0.66 0.2560
8 18 5 1 20 1 3 0.08 0.58 0.2799
9 21 1 2 20 0 4 0.51 3.01 0.0013
10 13 0 11 11 0 13 0.83 4.15 <0.0001
11 12 2 10 16 0 8 0.37 2.12 0.0171
12 20 0 4 20 0 4 0.40 1.96 0.0250

Median 16.50 1.00 5.00 18.50 0.00 5.00 0.41 2.17
SD 2.76 1.50 2.93 2.89 0.80 3.14 0.20 1.03
Range 12 – 20 0 – 5 1 – 11 11 – 21 0 – 2 1 – 13 0.08 – 0.83 0.58 – 4.15
*

The full table with comparison of individual physician signs and individual physician symptoms to confirmed 75% group Dx is given in supplementary material.