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

Table 3 Confusion matrix describing agreement and disagreement on primary management decision (N = 50)

		Audiologist Management Decision
		ENT review	Hearing aid referral	Audiological monitoring	Discharge
ENT Management Decision	ENT review	16		4^a
	Hearing aid referral		1
	Audiological monitoring	5^a		17	1^b
	Discharge			3^b	3

^a9/50 patients with pathology where audiologist and ENT specialist disagreed on whether to monitor in audiology or proceed to ENT review
^b4 patients with no current pathology where disagreement about whether to discharge or monitor

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