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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Hosp Med. 2012 Aug 3;7(9):690–696. doi: 10.1002/jhm.1965

Table 4.

Measures of agreement for quartiles of performance in mortality and readmission pairs

Condition pair Same quartile
(any)
Same quartile
(Q1 or Q4)
Q1 in one and
Q4 in another
Weighted
Kappa
Spearman
correlation
Mortality
MI and HF 34.8% 20.2% 7.9% 0.19 0.25
MI and PN 32.7% 18.8% 8.2% 0.16 0.22
HF and PN 35.9% 21.8% 5.0% 0.26 0.36
Readmission
MI and HF 36.6% 21.0% 7.5% 0.22 0.28
MI and PN 34.0% 19.6% 8.1% 0.19 0.24
HF and PN 37.1% 22.6% 5.4% 0.27 0.37