Renal Dysfunction, Metabolic Syndrome and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality by David Martins, Chizobam Ani, Deyu Pan, Omolola Ogunyemi, Keith Norris

“…A model with early CKD and MetS has a higher predictive accuracy (72.0% versus 67.6%), area under the ROC (0.74 versus 0.66), and Cohen's kappa (0.38 versus 0.21) than that with MetS alone. …”
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The Effectiveness of Dipstick for the Detection of Urinary Tract Infection by Isaac Dadzie, Elvis Quansah, Mavis Puopelle Dakorah, Victoria Abiade, Ebenezer Takyi-Amuah, Richmond Adusei

“…Combined “nitrite-positive or leucocyte-positive” result was relatively the best indicator for accurate dipstick diagnosis, with AUC = 0.7242. Cohen’s kappa values between dipstick diagnosis and quantitative culture were <0.6. …”
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The Relation Between the Metopic Suture Persistence and Frontal Sinus Volume and Olfactory Fossa Depth: A Reliability Study with Semiautomatic Volume Measurement by Başak Atalay, Mehmet Bilgin Eser

“…Interobserver agreement was evaluated with the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) and Cohen’s kappa coefficient (κ). Results: The prevalence of PMS was found to be 4.99% [95% confidence interval (CI): 4.03-6.17]. …”
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Self-Movement Screening using the Symmio Application is Reliable and Valid for Identifying Musculoskeletal Risk Factors by Kyle Matsel, Jonathan Kirsch, Tessa Netelbeek, Rolando Rodriguez, Ervin Velic, Kate Schwartzkopf-Phifer

“… # Results The mean Cohen's kappa coefficient was 0.68 (95% CI, 0.47-0.87) and the absolute agreement was 89% between self-assessment of subjects and the observation of a trained healthcare provider. …”
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Cardiovascular Risk Assessment: A Comparison of the Framingham, PROCAM, and DAD Equations in HIV-Infected Persons by Max Weyler Nery, Celina Maria Turchi Martelli, Erika Aparecida Silveira, Clarissa Alencar de Sousa, Marianne de Oliveira Falco, Aline de Cássia Oliveira de Castro, Jorge Tannus Esper, Luis Carlos Silva e Souza, Marília Dalva Turchi

“…The agreement between the CVD risk equations was assessed using Cohen's kappa coefficient. The participants' mean age was 36.8 years (SD = 10.3), 76.9% were men, and 66.3% were on antiretroviral therapy. 47.8% of the participants had abdominal obesity, 23.1% were current smokers, 20.0% had hypertension, and 2.0% had diabetes. …”
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PD-L1 Immunohistochemistry Comparability and Their Correlation with Clinical Characteristics in NSCLC by Chiao-En Wu, Ching-Fu Chang, Liao Kou-Sheng, Ju Chiang, Shih-Wei Lee, Yu-Chi Chiu

“…The above findings were confirmed by Cohen’s kappa. In addition, we found that PD-L1 expression was significantly associated with advanced N stage but not with T and M stages. …”
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Initial use of supplementary oxygen for trauma patients: a systematic review by Trine Grodum Eskesen, Josefine Stokholm Baekgaard, Jacob Steinmetz, Lars S Rasmussen

“…Two independent reviewers screened and identified studies and extracted data from included studies.Results 6142 citations were screened with an inter-rater reliability (Cohen’s kappa) of 0.88. One interventional trial of intubated trauma patients was included. 68 trauma patients were randomised to receive an FiO2 of 0.80 (intervention group) or 0.50 (control group) during mechanical ventilation (first 6 hours). …”
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Near-infrared light reflection for the early detection of proximal caries in posterior teeth: an in vivo study by Liheng Shen, Xiqun Yang, Chengzhi Dong, Xiaodong Tang, Simin Zheng, Tingting Wang, Linhong Wang, Fan Yang, Yuchen Zheng

“…Results For posterior teeth, the accuracy of near-infrared light reflection was 0.78, with a sensitivity of 0.44 and a specificity of 0.83. Cohen’s kappa showed poor consistency between the two diagnostic methods, near-infrared light reflection and bitewing radiography. …”
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Comparative analysis of EGFR mutations in circulating tumor DNA and primary tumor tissues from lung cancer patients using BEAMing PCR by Duhita Mirikar, Nandini Banerjee, Kumar Prabhash, Rajiv Kumar Kaushal, Vanita Naronha, C. S. Pramesh, George Karimundackal, Amit Joshi, Swapnil Rane, Ranjan Basak

“…For both comparisons, Cohen’s kappa agreement was significant. The advantage of BEAMing is its ability to identify mutated DNA sequences in cancer cells in the background of normal cell DNA contamination. …”
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DC/TMD Examiner Protocol: Longitudinal Evaluation on Interexaminer Reliability by Marit Slåttelid Skeie, Paula Frid, Manal Mustafa, Jörg Aßmus, Annika Rosén

“…The interexaminer agreements in 2013 and 2014 between the “reference” and each examiner were analysed using Bland–Altman plots, intraclass correlation coefficient, Cohen’s kappa, and consistency values. Results. For the majority of the gathered data, no clear change of agreement between 2013 and 2014 could be observed, and only one muscle zone in 2014 could show any clear difference in agreement between the examiners. …”
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Consistency between headache diagnoses and ICHD-3 criteria across different levels of care by Lucas Hendrik Overeem, Marlene Ulrich, Mira Pauline Fitzek, Kristin Sophie Lange, Ja Bin Hong, Uwe Reuter, Bianca Raffaelli

“…The patients’ self-reported diagnoses from the PSLC were compared with those in TLC and with ICHD-3 criteria. Cohen’s kappa (κ) and R² were used to assess diagnostic agreement. …”
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Modelling relative richness of flooding-response groups to predict hydrology-driven change in wetland plant communities by David C. Deane, Michelle T. Casanova, Jason Nicol, Justin D. Brookes

“…However, predictions against terrestrial species were reasonable (Cohen’s kappa > 0.58), suggesting the approach can identify hydrological tipping points associated with wetland drying. …”
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Comparison of Two Automated Urine Analyzers (URiSCAN Super + YD Diagnostics and Sysmex UC-3500–UF-5000 Urine Chemistry Analyzer) with Routine Microscopy by Durre Aden, Poonam Khambra, Sunil Ranga, Yasir Alvi

“…The results of urine examination consisting of cells, formed elements, and microorganisms were compared between both the automated urine analyzers and microscopy, and the degree of concordance was calculated utilizing Cohen’s kappa (κ) analysis to see the concordance between all three values. …”
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The TikTok Addiction Scale: Development and validation by Petros Galanis, Aglaia Katsiroumpa, Ioannis Moisoglou, Olympia Konstantakopoulou

“…We used Cronbach's alpha, McDonald's Omega, Cohen's kappa, and intraclass correlation coefficient to examine reliability.ResultsWe found that the TTAS is a six-factor 15-item scale with robust psychometric properties. …”
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Meta-synthesis of drivers of the circular business model by Atieh Khodaei, Mahdi Hosseinpour, Mohammad javad Jamshidi, Yoosof Mohamadifar

“…Using the coding method, the number of 27 codes, 8 concepts, and 3 components were identified and validated through Cohen's kappa test, and the model of the drivers of circular business model was presented and drawn. …”
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A Novel Stacked Model for Classification of Vocal Cord Paralysis Over Imbalanced Vocal Data by K. Jayashree Hegde, K. Manjula Shenoy, K. Devaraja

“…In addition, the proposed model&#x2019;s robustness and trustworthiness are proven by the False Discovery Rate of 0.07142, Cohen Kappa of 0.82105, Mathew&#x2019;s Correlation coefficient (MCC) of 0.83452, and F1-score 0.91005. …”
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Mapping Antimicrobial Resistance in <i>Staphylococcus epidermidis</i> Isolates from Subclinical Mastitis in Danish Dairy Cows by Desiree Corvera Kløve, Mikael Lenz Strube, Peter M. H. Heegaard, Lærke Boye Astrup

“…Correspondence between phenotypic and genotypic resistance was then evaluated by Cohen’s kappa statistics. Furthermore, the presence of plasmid replicon genes and the strain diversity among the <i>S. epidermidis</i> isolates was investigated to associate these findings with the observed AMR patterns. …”
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Comparing three summary indices to assess diet quality of Canadian children: a call for consensus by Seyedehatefeh Panahimoghadam, Paul J. Veugelers, Julia Dabravolskaj, Trudy Tran, Katerina Maximova, Katerina Maximova

“…Agreement between the three indices was assessed using weighted Cohen’s kappa. Univariate and multivariable linear regression models assessed diet quality according to student’s sex, grade level, school material/social deprivation, and geographic region.ResultsHEFI-2019 scores had the widest range, while DQI-I had the smallest. …”
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Comparing predictive risk to actual presence of coronary atherosclerosis on coronary computed tomography angiography by Emma Playford, Simon Stewart, Gerard Hoyne, Geoff Strange, Girish Dwivedi, Christian Hamilton-Craig, Gemma Figtree, David Playford

“…Overall, 23 % of males and 31 % of females had CAD predicted by CVRS (Monte Carlo: females, p = 0.024; males, p < 0.001), but there was little to no agreement between CVRS and atherosclerosis burden (Cohen's kappa: males, κ = 0.149; females, κ = 0.096). …”
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Ultra-fast biparametric MRI in prostate cancer assessment: Diagnostic performance and image quality compared to conventional multiparametric MRI by Antonia M. Pausch, Vivien Filleböck, Clara Elsner, Niels J. Rupp, Daniel Eberli, Andreas M. Hötker

“…Two radiologists (R1: 4 years and R2: 3 years of experience) independently assigned PI-RADS scores (PI-RADS v2.1) and assessed image quality (mPI-QUAL score) in two blinded study readouts. Weighted Cohen’s Kappa (κ) was calculated to evaluate inter-reader agreement. …”
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