Table 3. Weighted kappa and Spearman’s rank analyses of inter-rater reliability of consultation scores for 41 general practitioner (GP) consultations and 21 physician assistant (PA) consultations evaluated using the Leicester Assessment Package.

	Quadratic weighted kappa		Spearman's rank
Area of assessment	kappa	95% CI	Correlation co-efficient	p value
Interview/history taking	0.550	0.363–0.737	0.585	<0.001
Physical examination	0.294	0.083–0.504	0.315	0.009
Patient management	0.330	0.142–0.518	0.433	<0.001
Problem solving	0.246	0.001–0.484	0.258	0.024
Behaviour/relationship with patients	0.710	0.601–0.819	0.727	<0.001
Anticipatory care	0.124	-0.287–0.536	-0.149	0.148
Global score	0.602	0.428–0.777	0.650	<0.001

CI = confidence interval.