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Inter-rater agreement and reliability of the COSMIN (COnsensus-based Standards for the selection of health status Measurement Instruments) Checklist - BMC Medical Research Methodology

  • ️de Vet, Henrica CW
  • ️Wed Sep 22 2010

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Table 1 Inter-rater agreement (percentage agreement) and reliability (kappa coefficients) on whether the property was evaluated in an article (COSMIN step 1)

From: Inter-rater agreement and reliability of the COSMIN (COnsensus-based Standards for the selection of health status Measurement Instruments) Checklist

 

percentage agreement

Intraclass kappaa

Internal consistency

94

0.66

Reliability

94

0.77

Measurement error

94

0.02b

Content validity

84

0.29

Structural validity

86

0.48

Hypotheses testing

87

0.29

Cross-cultural validity

95

0.66b

Criterion validity

93

0.23b

Responsiveness

96

0.81

Interpretability

86

0.02b

  1. a number of ratings on the 75 articles = 263; b items with low dispersal i.e. more than 75% of the raters who responded to an item rated the same response category; printed in bold indicates kappa > 0.70 or % agreement >80%

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