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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pain Med. 2012 Jul 3;13(9):1174–1180. doi: 10.1111/j.1526-4637.2012.01430.x

Table 2.

Sensitivity and specificity of patient self-reports and agreement with their PCPs about whether they had a pain medicine agreement, with PCP report set as the gold standard

Patient report of pain medicine
agreements a 		Sensitivity Specificity % Agreement Kappa
Patient reported a pain agreement with
their PCP at one or more interviews
during the study year		 61.1% 64.6% 63.1% 0.25
Patient reported pain agreement with
their PCP at the interview closest in time
to their PCP’s report		 36.1% 81.3% 61.9% 0.18
a

Compared to PCP report of whether the patient had a written pain medicine agreement during the past year