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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Epidemiol. 2016 Feb 4;26(3):198–203. doi: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2016.01.004

Table 2.

Agreement among five reviewers in assessing cohort eligibility*

Outcome of text string reviews Conclusion; N Percentage of total (95% CI)**
Complete agreement among all 5 reviewers Eligible; N=149
Not Eligible; N=61
Uncertain; N=0		 61% (54-67%)
25% (20-31%)
0% (0-2%)
4:1 disagreement; adjudicated Eligible; N=14
Not Eligible; N=5
Uncertain; N=0		 6% (3-10%)
2% (1-5%)
0% (0-2%)
3:2 disagreement; adjudicated Eligible; N=8
Not Eligible; N=7
Uncertain; N=0		 3% (2-7%)
3% (1-6%)
0% (0-2%)
3:2 disagreement; remained uncertain after adjudication Eligible; N=0
Not Eligible; N=0
Uncertain; N=2		 0% (0-2%)
0% (0-2%)
1% (0-3%)
*

Limited to 246 subjects with at least one text string available

**

Does not add up to 100% because of rounding