Table 1.
Concordance of experts in their assessment scores of letters to patients written by 6th year students attending family medicine rotation in 2011
| Evaluation category |
Score (mean ± SD)* |
Concordance† |
Difference‡ |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Expert 1 | Expert 2 | Expert 3 | W (P) | χ2 (P) | |
| Adequacy and clarity of description of disease/state |
1.43 ± 0.57 |
1.36 ± 0.48 |
1.75 ± 0.49 |
0.372 (0.197) |
32.525 (<0.001) |
| Knowledge |
1.47 ± 0.55 |
1.28 ± 0.53 |
1.74 ± 0.48 |
0.484 (0.002) |
45.529 (<0.001) |
| Adequacy of recommendations |
1.43 ± 0.58 |
1.50 ± 0.52 |
1.80 ± 0.40 |
0.469 (0.004) |
34.740 (<0.001) |
| Courtesy and respect |
1.91 ± 0.32 |
1.62 ± 0.51 |
1.86 ± 0.42 |
0.413 (0.047) |
31.442 (<0.001) |
| Language and style |
1.78 ± 0.44 |
1.58 ± 0.53 |
1.53 ± 0.57 |
0.357 (0.288) |
14.588 (<0.001) |
| Total score | 8.02 ± 1.37 | 7.34 ± 1.46 | 8.69 ± 1.66 | 0.519 (0.001) | 64.153 (<0.001) |
*The scale ranged from 0 to 2 points (maximum 10 points for the five evaluated categories). SD standard deviation.
†Kendall’s W concordance test.
‡Friedman’s test.