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Table 2.

Agreement between hospital doctors’ and hospital nurses’ assessment of admission preventability of unplanned admissions for a chronic condition to three Australian hospitals between November 2014 and June 2017 (n = 247)

Hospital nurse PAT assessment	Hospital doctor PAT assessment		Kappa statistic	95% CI
	Preventable (n = 95)	Non-preventable (n = 152)^b
Preventable (n = 83)	44 (18%)^a	39 (16%) ^a	0.21	0.09–0.34
Not preventable (n = 164)	51 (20%) ^a	113 (46%) ^a

^aPercentages shown are % of the total assessments.

^bNon-preventable includes admissions assessed as not preventable and those unclassifiable.