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. 2020 Jul 2:0846537120938328. doi: 10.1177/0846537120938328

Table 2.

Inter-Rater Agreement Between Chest Radiologists According to the RSNA Expert Consensus Statement on Reporting Chest CT Findings Related to COVID-19.

COVID-19 appearance Agreement Fleiss kappa Standard error P value Interpretation
Typical COVID-19 appearance
 Radiologist 1 and radiologist 2 and radiologist 3 0.815 <.0001 Almost perfect agreement
 Radiologist 1 and radiologist 2 90.1% 0.803 0.034 <.0001 Almost perfect agreement
 Radiologist 1 and radiologist 3 91.1% 0.821 0.033 <.0001 Almost perfect agreement
 Radiologist 2 and radiologist 3 91.1% 0.823 0.032 <.0001 Almost perfect agreement
Indeterminate COVID-19 appearance
 Radiologist 1 and radiologist 2 and radiologist 3 0.636 <.0001 Substantial agreement
 Radiologist 1 and radiologist 2 89.1% 0.597 0.063 <.0001 Moderate agreement
 Radiologist 1 and radiologist 3 89.4% 0.668 0.054 <.0001 Substantial agreement
 Radiologist 2 and radiologist 3 89.8% 0.641 0.058 <.0001 Substantial agreement
Atypical COVID-19 appearance
 Radiologist 1 and radiologist 2 and radiologist 3 0.806 <.0001 Almost perfect agreement
 Radiologist 1 and radiologist 2 98.0% 0.823 0.071 <.0001 Almost perfect agreement
 Radiologist 1 and radiologist 3 98.3% 0.830 0.074 <.0001 Almost perfect agreement
 Radiologist 2 and radiologist 3 97.7% 0.762 0.086 <.0001 Substantial agreement
Negative for pneumonia
 Radiologist 1 and radiologist 2 and radiologist 3 0.962 <.0001 Almost perfect agreement
 Radiologist 1 and radiologist 2 98.3% 0.960 0.018 <.0001 Almost perfect agreement
 Radiologist 1 and radiologist 3 98.7% 0.968 0.016 <.0001 Almost perfect agreement
 Radiologist 2 and radiologist 3 98.3% 0.960 0.018 <.0001 Almost perfect agreement

Abbreviations: CT, computed tomography; RSNA, Radiological Society of North America.