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. 2012 Jul 26;7(7):e41239. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041239

Table 2. Summary of the 30 individual peer-reviewers of the 319 cases.

Reviewer number* Median score on six point ordinal scale (IQR) Number of cases rated as an adverse eventN (%) Model-based reviewer operating characteristic
Sensitivity Specificity
1 1 (1,2) 22 (7) 0.0562 0.92
2 1 (1,2) 43 (13) 0.2703 0.9824
3 1 (1,3) 51 (16) 0.25 0.9181
4 1 (1,4) 90 (28) 0.5542 0.9532
5 2 (1,3) 55 (17) 0.3524 0.9832
6 2 (1,3) 76 (24) 0.3784 0.883
7 2 (1,4) 84 (26) 0.3992 0.8542
8 2 (1,4) 86 (27) 0.3129 0.7678
9 2 (1,4) 96 (30) 0.4952 0.8671
10 2 (1,5) 103 (32) 0.527 0.8537
11 2 (1,5) 125 (39) 0.7717 0.9366
12 2 (1,5) 134 (42) 0.8347 0.9386
13 2 (1,5) 137 (43) 0.8159 0.9048
14 2 (1,6) 135 (42) 0.794 0.8975
15 3 (1,4) 129 (40) 0.6847 0.838
15 3 (1,5) 130 (41) 0.6964 0.8424
17 3 (1,5) 156 (49) 0.7858 0.7676
18 3 (1,6) 155 (49) 0.8404 0.8207
19 3 (2,4) 93 (29) 0.5815 0.9593
20 3 (2,4) 115 (36) 0.4909 0.7523
21 3 (2,5) 154 (48) 0.7665 0.7627
22 4 (1,5) 162 (51) 0.8889 0.8217
23 4 (1,5) 167 (52) 0.875 0.7804
24 4 (1,5) 171 (54) 0.8485 0.7342
25 4 (2,5) 160 (50) 0.8484 0.7984
26 4 (2,5) 176 (55) 0.891 0.7417
27 4 (2,5) 181 (57) 0.9025 0.7224
28 4 (3,4) 190 (60) 0.706 0.4999
29 4 (3,5) 204 (64) 0.9314 0.613
30 5 (2,5) 218 (68) 0.9104 0.513
Overall 3 (2,4) 3798 (40) 0.65 0.82
*

Physician reviewers were numbered based on their median 6-point scale score ranking.

1– Definitely due to disease, 6– definitely due to medical care.

Ordinal scale dichotomized: 1–3 ‘Due to disease’; 4–6 ‘Due to medical care’.

§

Area under the receiver operating characteristic curve.