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Table 3 Agreement between rounds within the same raters and between different pairs of raters in the three rounds

From: Developing a diagnostic checklist of traditional Chinese medicine symptoms and signs for psoriasis: a Delphi study

Agreement status

Same rater, different round (mean ± SD)

Pairs of raters (mean ± SD)

 

First round

Second round

Third round

 

Kappa1 statistics

    

First round

1.0

—

—

0.12 ± 0.12

Second round

0.34 ± 0.20

1.0

—

0.16 ± 0.13

Third round

0.42 ± 0.19

0.96 ± 0.06

1.0

0.18 ± 0.12

Intraclass correlation

    

coefficient (ICC)

    

Agreement

0.23

0.26

0.26

—

Consistency

0.27

0.29

0.29

—

  1. 1 Quadratic weighted kappa statistics.
  2. SD, standard deviation; ICC, intraclass correlation coefficient.