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Table 3 Individual ratings and Kappa statistic for the agreement of necrosis (yes/no) for primary clinical, secondary clinical and photographic 1 and 2 raters

From: A randomised controlled feasibility trial to evaluate local heat preconditioning on wound healing after reconstructive breast surgery: the preHEAT trial

Primary clinical

Secondary clinical

Kappa [95% CI]

Kappa interpretation

No

Yes

 No

49

2

 

Almost perfect agreement

 Yes

4

26

0.84 [0.62 to 1.00]

Primary clinical

Photographic 1

  

No

Yes

 No

16

3

 

Substantial agreement

 Yes

3

13

0.65 [0.32 to 0.99]

Primary clinical

Photographic 2

  

No

Yes

 No

17

2

 

Moderate agreement

 Yes

5

11

0.59 [0.26 to 0.92]

Photographic 1

Photographic 2

  

No

Yes

 No

30

1

 

Substantial agreement

 Yes

8

21

0.70 [0.45 to 0.94]