Research Article

Chest Radiographs for Pediatric TB Diagnosis: Interrater Agreement and Utility

Table 2

Overall agreement amongst all raters on lymphadenopathy and quality of CXR.

RatingKappa (95% CI) value

Lymphadenopathy
 Present0.27 (0.129–0.448)<0.001
 Absent0.29 (0.163–0.430)<0.001
 Equivocal0.17 (0.044–0.423)<0.001
 Overall weighted kappa0.26 (0.182–0.355)<0.001
Quality of radiographs
 Optimal−0.13240.999
 Suboptimal−0.16740.999
 Unreadable−0.01840.8822
 Overall weighted kappa−0.14520.998