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. 2017 Jun 30;4(1):e000193. doi: 10.1136/bmjresp-2017-000193
Within listener agreement Listener (N=number of recordings interpreted by each panellist)
Dichotomous lung examination group Overall
(n=136)
Listener #1
(n=18)
Listener #2
(n=13)
Listener #3
(n=20)
Listener #4
(n=19)
Listener #5
(n=18)
Listener #6
(n=17)
Listener #7
(n=16)
Listener #8
(n=15)
Abnormal or normal† Agreement, n (%) 110 (80.8) 16 (88.8) 11 (84.6) 14 (70.0) 14 (73.6) 16 (88.8) 16 (94.2) 11 (68.8) 12 (80.0)
Kappa statistic (95% CI) 0.61 (0.48 to 0.75) 0.75 0.68 0.42 0.44 0.73 0.77 0.23 0.55
PABAK (95% CI)** 0.62 (0.49 to 0.75) 0.78 0.69 0.40 0.47 0.78 0.88 0.38 0.60
Crackle or no crackle Agreement, n/N (%) 112 (82.4) 15 (83.4) 13 (100.0) 12 (60.0) 17 (89.4) 17 (94.4) 15 (88.2) 12 (75.0) 11 (73.4)
Kappa statistic (95% CI) 0.62 (0.48 to 0.76) 0.67 1.00 0.20 0.46 0.82 0.77 0.50 0.47
PABAK (95% CI)†† 0.65 (0.52 to 0.78) 0.67 1.00 0.2 0.79 0.89 0.77 0.5 0.47
Wheeze or no wheeze Agreement, n/N (%) 114 (83.8) 14 (77.8) 11 (84.6) 16 (80.0) 16 (84.2 17 (94.4) 16 (94.2) 13 (81.2) 11 (73.4)
Kappa statistic (95% CI) 0.67 (0.55 to 0.80) 0.56 0.68 0.57 0.62 0.77 0.85 0.63 0.47
PABAK (95% CI)‡‡ 0.68 (0.55 to 0.80) 0.56 0.69 0.60 0.68 0.89 0.88 0.63 0.47

*Excludes uninterpretable primary listener lung examination results for 83/792 cases. Primary listeners were the first two listeners randomly assigned to interpret a lung sound examination.

†Crackle and/or wheeze (abnormal) or no crackle and/or wheeze (normal).

‡Prevalence index 0.30, bias index −0.04.

§Prevalence index −0.15, bias index 0.01.

¶Prevalence index 0.1, bias index −0.05.

**Prevalence index 0.13, bias index 0.03.

††Prevalence index −0.28, bias index 0.

‡‡Prevalence index −0.13, bias index 0.03.

PABAK, prevalence-adjusted, bias-adjusted kappa statistic.