Table 3.

Appropriateness of staging by level of training and self-confidence

Level of Training by Self-Confidence	Appropriate Staging		Agreement (95% CI)*P Value	Total [N (%)]
	No [n (%)]	Yes [n (%)]
Interventional pulmonologist
Diffident†	0 (0.0)	0 (0.0)	95.4 (77.2, 99.9)	0 (0.0)
Confident‡	1 (4.6)	21 (95.4)	P = NA§	22 (100)
General pulmonologist
Diffident†	3 (100)	0 (0.0)	61.1 (35.7, 82.7)	3 (16.7)
Confident‡	7 (46.7)	8 (53.3)	P = 0.045	15 (83.3)
Pulmonary fellow
Diffident†	5 (62.5)	3 (37.5)	40.0 (19.1, 63.9)	8 (40.0)
Confident‡	9 (75.0)	3 (25.0)	P = 0.725	12 (60.0)

Definition of abbreviations: CI = confidence interval; NA = not available.

^*Exact 95% confidence intervals are provided for the proportion of agreement.

^†Diffident: responding Novice/Below Average to Self-Confidence questionnaire item.

^‡Confident: responding Average/Above Average/Expert to Self-Confidence questionnaire item.

^§κ statistic P value NA when there are insufficient data to compute the standard error.