Referring physicians underestimate the extent of abnormalities in final reports from myocardial perfusion imaging

EJNMMI Research

Table 1 Analysis of the assessment of ischemia

Physician	Specialty	Title	K_sq	PA	RC	RP	RV
1	GP	S	0.83	35	0.736	0.251	0.000
2	GP	R	0.93	65	−0.007	0.139	0.007
3	GP	S	0.89	65	−0.192	−0.003	0.016
4	GP	R	0.87	55	0.295	0.030	0.033
5	GP	R	0.95	72	−0.210	0.054	0.005
6	GP	R	0.89	65	0.120	0.090	0.034
7	GP	S	0.91	72	0.085	−0.078	0.015
8	GP	S	0.96	75	−0.283	0.013	0.000
9	IM	R	0.93	73	−0.219	0.038	0.002
10	IM	R	0.96	73	−0.188	0.031	0.004
11	IM	R	0.95	73	−0.149	0.018	0.006
12	IM	R	0.92	72	−0.027	0.113	0.006
13	IM	S	0.92	82	−0.111	−0.067	0.007
14	IM	R	0.87	45	0.374	0.142	0.031
15	IM	S	0.93	65	0.128	0.039	0.016
16	C	S	0.94	72	−0.165	0.040	0.002
17	C	S	0.89	55	0.356	0.108	0.010
18	C	R	0.73	63	0.147	−0.063	0.027
19	C	S	0.95	75	−0.067	0.023	0.005
20	C	S	0.96	80	−0.105	0.004	0.001
21	C	S	0.97	80	−0.149	0.018	0.002
22	C	R	0.90	65	0.103	−0.036	0.010
23	C	S	0.90	70	−0.189	−0.048	0.006
Median			0.92	72	−0.067	0.030	0.006

GP – general practitioner, IM – internal medicine, C – cardiologist, S – specialist, R – resident, K_sq – squared kappa, PA – percentage agreement, RC – relative concentration, RP – relative proportion, RV – relative rank variance.