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

EJNMMI Research

Table 3 Analysis of the assessment of infarction

Physician	Specialty	Title	K_sq	PA	RC	RP	RV
1	GP	S	0.80	18	0.740	0.173	0.024
2	GP	R	0.88	73	0.029	−0.025	0.007
3	GP	S	0.89	80	−0.057	−0.032	0.010
4	GP	R	0.84	43	0.457	0.031	0.022
5	GP	R	0.96	82	−0.055	−0.016	0.020
6	GP	R	0.88	72	0.180	0.098	0.001
7	GP	S	0.89	60	0.317	−0.058	0.001
8	GP	S	0.96	75	−0.079	−0.023	0.005
9	IM	R	0.93	75	−0.129	0.083	0.007
10	IM	R	0.87	72	−0.158	0.066	0.014
11	IM	R	0.90	75	0.092	0.078	0.004
12	IM	R	0.92	70	0.171	0.079	0.002
13	IM	S	0.92	78	−0.098	−0.088	0.001
14	IM	R	0.92	58	0.288	0.063	0.006
15	IM	S	0.95	70	0.151	0.030	0.004
16	C	S	0.95	80	0.070	0.026	0.004
17	C	S	0.92	62	0.310	0.049	0.000
18	C	R	0.74	70	0.055	−0.035	0.045
19	C	S	0.92	67	−0.049	0.058	0.009
20	C	S	0.96	83	−0.080	−0.021	0.002
21	C	S	0.97	80	−0.107	0.059	0.000
22	C	R	0.85	63	0.075	−0.064	0.019
23	C	S	0.95	77	−0.138	0.001	0.002
Median			0.92	72	0.055	0.030	0.005

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.