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. 2018 Mar 6;23(8):503–508. doi: 10.1093/pch/pxy017

Table 4.

Simple kappa statistics for interrater agreement of various ED clinicians on tool triggered-recommendations with 95% confidence intervals.

Recommendations All Clinicians Physicians Only Allied Health Only P-values* (two-tail)
Social support services 0.65 (0.62–0.68) 0.73 (0.68–0.77) 0.58 (0.52–0.64) <0.001
Adolescent/Substance & addiction services 0.52 (0.49–0.55) 0.57 (0.48–0.65) 0.48 (0.44–0.52) >0.1
Community based mental health services 0.36 (0.33–0.39) 0.48 (0.39–0.56) 0.29 (0.25–0.33) <0.001
Crisis Response Team (urgent community based mental health services) 0.46 (0.43–0.49) 0.55 (0.45–0.64) 0.41 (0.37–0.46) 0.016
Psychiatry (in-house urgent psychiatric evaluation and interventions) 0.43 (0.40–0.46) 0.49 (0.41–0.57) 0.40 (0.35–0.44) 0.063

*Comparing agreement among physicians versus agreement among allied health professionals.

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