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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Asthma. 2016 Nov 10;54(7):741–753. doi: 10.1080/02770903.2016.1258081

Table 3.

Inter-rater reliability

Fleiss’ kappa (95% CI) Weighted Kappa (95% CI)
Overall MD vs Nurse MD vs RT Nurse vs RT
Before treatment
(overall p = 0.3957
After treatme nt
(overall p = 0.8143)
Before treatment
(overall p = 0.9115)
After treatment
(overall p = 0.6976)
Before treatment
(overall p = 0.6106)
After treatment
(overall p = 0.1016)
Before treatment
(overall p = 0.7904)
After treatment
(overall p =) 0.4649
PRA M 0.3452 (0.2291, 0.4613) 0.4026 (0.2657, 0.5394) 0.5507 (0.4084, 0.6931) 0.5155 (0.3532, 0.6778) 0.4060 (0.2241, 0.5879) 0.4511 (0.2712, 0.6310) 0.3538 (0.1771, 0.5305) 0.4807 (0.2713, 0.6901)
PI 0.3451 (0.2146, 0.4756) 0.3976 (0.2545, 0.5407) 0.5391 (0.3834, 0.6949) 0.4279 (0.1854, 0.6704) 0.3487 (0.1908, 0.5066) 0.5046 (0.3150, 0.6942) 0.4300 (0.2655, 0.5945) 0.4500 (0.2363, 0.6637)
PASS 0.4157 (0.2808, 0.5507) 0.4523 (0.2381, 0.6664) 0.5023 (0.294, 0.7106) 0.3632 (−0.0288, 0.7551) 0.2956 (0.1004, 0.4908) 0.2757 (0.0088, 0.5425) 0.3681 (0.1384, 0.5978) 0.5941 (0.2867, 0.9015)
Including CAS and AAIRS Including CAS and AAIRS Including CAS and AAIRS Including CAS and AAIRS
(overall p = 0.6074) (overall p = 0.1505) (overall p = 0.9923) (overall p = 0.4945) (overall p = 0.6192) (overall p = 0.2173) (overall p = 0.9570) (overall p = 0.3781)
CAS 0.3355 (0.2020, 0.4691) 0.2604 (0.1284, 0.3924) 0.5168 (0.3531, 0.6806) 0.2551 (0.0461, 0.4640) 0.4459 (0.2444, 0.6474) 0.3850 (0.2153, 0.5546) 0.3991 (0.2172, 0.5809) 0.3733 (0.1575, 0.5892)
AAIRS 0.3885 (0.2694, 0.5077) 0.3356 (0.2055, 0.4658) 0.5359 (0.3591, 0.7127) 0.4358 (0.2419, 0.6297) 0.4123 (0.2184, 0.6063) 0.4654 (0.2476, 0.6831) 0.4234 (0.2237, 0.6231) 0.5143 (0.3451, 0.6836)

PRAM = Pediatric Respiratory Assessment Measure; AAIRS = Acute Asthma Intensity Research Score; PASS = Pediatric Asthma Severity Score, PI = Pulmonary Index (PI); CAS = Clinical Asthma Score