Table 3.
Agreement rates (ICCs) for junior and senior readers, by modality, together with the Cicchetti agreement classification [28]
| Score | Junior | Senior | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unaided | Aided | Change (unaided-aided) | Unaided | Aided | Change (unaided–aided) | |
| KL | ||||||
| ICC | 0.67 (0.58–0.74) | 0.82 (0.76–0.86) | × 1.22 | 0.39 (0.06–0.62) | 0.78 (0.70–0.84) | × 2.0 |
| Cicchetti | Good | Excellent | Poor | Excellent | ||
| JSN | ||||||
| ICC | 0.71 (0.62–0.78) | 0.76 (0.67–0.83) | × 1.07 | 0.54 (0.34–0.68) | 0.74 (0.67–0.80) | × 1.37 |
| Cicchetti | Good | Excellent | Fair | Good | ||
| Sclerosis | ||||||
| ICC | 0.42 (0.30–0.53) | 0.60 (0.50–0.69) | × 1.43 | 0.41 (0.16–0.60) | 0.58 (0.46–0.68) | × 1.42 |
| Cicchetti | Fair | Good | Fair | Fair | ||
| Osteo-phytes | ||||||
| ICC | 0.55 (0.25–0.73) | 0.75 (0.65–0.83) | × 1.36 | 0.46 (0.23–0.64) | 0.73 (0.66–0.79) | × 1.59 |
| Cicchetti | Fair | Excellent | Fair | Good | ||
| OA | ||||||
| ICC | 0.43 (0.32–0.54) | 0.60 (0.50–0.69) | × 1.40 | 0.18 (0.06–0.30) | 0.60 (0.51–0.69) | × 3.33 |
| Cicchetti | Fair | Good | Poor | Good | ||
The values for junior readers have already been published by Nehrer et al. [19]. Significant changes (defined as p value < 0.01) are highlighted in grey shading