Table 4.
Overall concordance rates for the 3 composite change scores determined using ICC
| A. Including All Raters | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO + NR (n =19) | NO (n = 10) | NR (n =9) | |||||||
| Item | ICC | LCL | UCL | ICC | LCL | UCL | ICC | LCL | UCL |
| Change score 1 | 0.48 | 0.32 | 0.70 | 0.35 | 0.18 | 0.59 | 0.66 | 0.50 | 0.81 |
| Change score 2 | 0.48 | 0.33 | 0.66 | 0.37 | 0.22 | 0.58 | 0.59 | 0.43 | 0.76 |
| Change score 3 | 0.48 | 0.34 | 0.67 | 0.37 | 0.23 | 0.58 | 0.59 | 0.44 | 0.76 |
| B. Excluding the 2 Outlier Raters | |||||||||
| NO + NR (n = 17) | NO (n = 8) | ||||||||
| Item | ICC | LCL | UCL | ICC | LCL | UCL | |||
| Change score 1 | 0.60 | 0.44 | 0.79 | 0.58 | 0.39 | 0.78 | |||
| Change score 2 | 0.57 | 0.42 | 0.74 | 0.55 | 0.39 | 0.74 | |||
| Change score 3 | 0.58 | 0.43 | 0.75 | 0.56 | 0.40 | 0.74 | |||
Abbreviations: ICC intraclass correlation, LCL, lower 95% confidence limit, UCL: upper 95% confidence limit.
Total score 1: as rated by the participants.
Total score 2: as corrected according to LANO proposal with 7 items (brain nodules, brain leptomeningeal enhancement, cranial nerve enhancement, spinal nodules, spinal leptomeningeal enhancement, nerve root enhancement, and epidural metastases).
Total score 3: as corrected with the 6 leptomeningeal items only (brain nodules, brain leptomeningeal enhancement, cranial nerve enhancement, spinal nodules, spinal leptomeningeal enhancement, and nerve root enhancement).