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

EJNMMI Research

Table 2 Classifications for ischemia for three individual referring physicians; general practitioner #1 (A), #8 (B) and cardiologist #4 (C). 1 = no ischemia, 2 = probably no ischemia, 3 = equivocal, 4 = probable ischemia, 5 = certain ischemia

A.
		Physicians in nuclear medicine
		1	2	3	4	5	Total
GP#1	5						0
	4				14	9	23
	3						0
	2	30	5				35
	1	2					2
	Total	32	5	0	14	9	60
GP – general practitioner
B.
		Physicians in nuclear medicine
		1	2	3	4	5	Total
GP#8	1				10	19	19
	2				4		4
	3						0
	4						0
	5	32	5				37
	Total	32	5	0	14	9	60
GP – general practitioner
C.
		Physicians in nuclear medicine
		1	2	3	4	5	Total
C#4	1				6	7	13
	2				7	2	9
	3	1			1		2
	4	2	2				4
	5	29	3				32
	Total	32	5	0	14	9	60
C – cardiologist

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.