Evaluating diagnostic and management agreement between audiology and ENT: a prospective inter-rater agreement study in a paediatric primary contact clinic

Table 2 Differential diagnosis confusion matrix (up to 3 diagnoses able to be selected)

	Audiologists
ENT	Differential diagnosis 1: Outer ear pathology
		Yes	No	Total
	Yes	0	0	0
	No	0	50	50
	Total	0	50	50
	Differential diagnosis 2: Middle ear pathology
		Yes	No	Total
	Yes	39	0	39
	No	2	9	11
	Total	41	9	50
	Differential diagnosis 3: Permanent sensorineural/retrocochlear hearing loss
		Yes	No	Total
	Yes	1	0	1
	No	1	48	49
	Total	2	48	50
	Differential diagnosis 4: Normal (no current pathology)
		Yes	No	Total
	Yes	11	1	12
	No	3	35	28
	Total	14	36	50

For each disagreement in the ‘normal’ diagnosis, the professionals had both nominated a concurrent ‘middle ear pathology’ differential diagnosis

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