. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Feb 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Perinatol. 2018 Nov 21;39(2):248–255. doi: 10.1038/s41372-018-0277-6

Table 3 –

Agreement among three pediatric cardiologists on echocardiographic diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension

Pulmonary hypertension diagnosis	Overall	Over time^a
Pulmonary hypertension diagnosis	Overall	First Read Period	Second Read Period	Last Read Period
Overall	171/1410 (12%)	65/472 (14%)	70/467 (15%)	38/477 (8%)
Percent Agreement among three readers (95%CI)	81.9 % (78.4%, 85.4%)	120/151 (79.5%)	126/154 (81.8%)	129/154 (83.88%)
Modified Fleiss’ κ (95%CI)	0.759 (0.711, 0.801)	0.726 (0.638, 0.806)	0.758 (0.671, 0.835)	0.784 (0.706, 0.861)

Read periods defined by dividing the total echocardiograms read into three groups. The order of the echocardiograms was the same for all readers. Absolute time to completion in each period was different for each reader.