Table 3.

Agreement in Assessment of NIHSS Stroke Total Scores between the Original Cases and Simulations

SIMULATIONS		ORIGINAL CASES
Cycle 1
Mobile	Total	No symptoms	Minor	Moderate	Moderate to severe	Severe
No symptoms	3	0	3	0	0	0
Minor	3	0	3	0	0	0
Moderate	23	0	0	23	0	0
Moderate to severe	3	0	0	0	1	2
Total	32	0	6	23	1	2
Total agreement = 84%, weighted kappa = 0.75
Bedside
No symptoms	2	0	2	0	0	0
Minor	2	0	2	0	0	0
Moderate	14	0	0	13	1	0
Moderate to severe	2	0	0	1	0	1
Total	20	0	4	14	1	1
Total agreement = 75%, weighted kappa = 0.62
Cycle 2
Mobile
No symptoms	2	0	1	1	0	0
Minor	2	0	2	0	0	0
Moderate	25	0	0	18	3	4
Moderate to severe	2	0	2	0	0	0
Total	31	0	5	19	3	4
Total agreement = 65%, weighted kappa = 0.17
Bedside
No symptoms	2	1	1	0	0	0
Minor	2	0	1	1	0	0
Moderate	14	0	0	12	2	0
Moderate to severe	2	0	0	0	0	2
Total	20	1	2	13	2	2
Total agreement = 70%, weighted kappa = 0.62
Cycle 3
Mobile
No symptoms	5	1	2	2	0	0
Minor	0	0	0	0	0	0
Moderate	15	0	0	11	3	1
Moderate to severe	5	0	0	0	1	4
Total	25	1	2	13	4	5
Total agreement = 52%, weighted kappa = 0.46