Table 3.

Prevalence of Pharmaceutical Prescribing for Symptoms, and Summary of Concordance of Pharmaceutical Prescribing and Symptom Documentation in the Medical Record for the Sample of n=384 Women

Symptom	Prevalence of Pharmaceutical Prescribing %	Rate of Pharmaceutical Prescribing When Symptom Was Documented	Kappa for Agreement Between Symptom Documentation and Pharmaceutical Prescribing	% Agreement Between Symptom Documentation and Pharmaceutical Prescribing	Positive Agreement %	Negative Agreement %	McNemar’s Test P-value a
Dyspnea	1.82	10.53	0.16	86	19	93	<0.0001
Diarrhea	3.39	33.33	0.47	93	50	96	<0.0001
Insomnia	3.39	34.21	0.48	93	51	97	<0.0001
Fatigue	4.17	10.13	0.12	63	18	76	<0.0001
Pain	23.44	62.14	0.66	85	76	90	<0.0001
Vomiting	2.34	36.00	0.51	96	53	98	<0.0001
Nausea	15.10	71.43	0.78	93	81	96	<0.0001
Poor appetite	2.34	27.59	0.40	94	42	97	<0.0001
Constipation	8.07	50.00	0.61	92	65	95	<0.0001
Mouth Sores	2.86	45.45	0.59	97	61	98	<0.0001
Dry mouth	0.26	20.00	0.33	99	33	99	0.0455
Cough	2.34	32.14	0.47	95	49	97	<0.0001

^aDisagreement was significant for all symptoms except dry mouth based on Bonferroni adjusted alpha of 0.004.