Validity of Palmar Pallor for Diagnosis of Anemia among Children Aged 6–59 Months in North India

Table 2

Interrater agreement among doctor and health worker to diagnose palmar pallor.

Doctor’s classification	Health workers classification			Total
	No pallor	Some pallor	Severe pallor
No pallor	43 (89.6)	5 (10.4)	0	48
Some pallor	11 (39.3)	16 (57.1)	1 (3.6)	28
Severe pallor	2 (50.0)	1 (25.0)	1 (25.0)	4

Kappa 0.48 (0.09), . Agreement 75%, expected 51.7%.
Clubbing some pallor and severe pallor as single category pallor.
Kappa agreement: 0.51 (std. error 0.1), . Agreement 77.5%, expected 54%.