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Table 5 Agreement between panels' acceptance of care indicators at final round

From: Development of paediatric quality of inpatient care indicators for low-income countries - A Delphi study

 

Criterion 1

Criterion 2

Domain

Raw agreement

(%)

Kappa statistic

(95% C1)¶

Raw agreement

(%)

Kappa statistic

(95% C1)¶

Structure:

    

Equipment & drugs (n = 52)

78.2

0.77(0.70-0.84)

60.3

0.56(0.47-0.64)

Organisation (n = 14)

90.5

0.90(0.77-0.98)

76.2

0.74(0.60-0.87)

All structure indicators (n = 66)

90.9

0.90(0.86-0.94)

53.5

0.54(0.47-0.60)

Processes:

    

General (n = 7)

81.0

0.80(0.61-0.95)

52.4

0.55(0.35-0.76)

Cough/pneumonia/asthma (n = 15)

82.2

0.81(0.67-0.93)

37.8

0.36(0.18-0.48)

Fever/malaria/meningitis (n = 14)

90.5

0.90(0.79-0.98)

57.1

0.57(0.43-0.72)

Diarrhoea & dehydration (n = 11)

93.9

0.94(0.81-1.00)

57.6

0.59(0.42-0.76)

Malnutrition (n = 11) **

1

-

51.5

0.50(0.30-0.68)

Neonatal care (n = 8) **

1

-

75.0

0.74(0.53-0.91)

All process indicators (n = 66)

80.8

0.80(0.73-0.86)

63.6

0.60(0.53-0.68)

All indicators (n = 132)

85.9

0.85(0.81-0.88)

58.6

0.57(0.51-0.62)

  1. ¶Based on final round ratings and indicators rated by both panels. Kappa 95% CI obtained from bootstrap; ** too few categories of disagreement to calculate kappa and CI correctly.