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Table 3 Agreement between nurse and cardiologist on the presence of regurgitation

From: Screening for rheumatic heart disease: quality and agreement of focused cardiac ultrasound by briefly trained health workers

View

Jet length (cm)

Mitral kappa (CI)

Aortic kappa (CI)

One view

>0

0.60 (0.56, 0.64)

0.44 (0.32, 0.57)

PLAX

>0

0.72 (0.70, 0.74)

0.54 (0.42, 0.62)

PSAX

>0

0.55 (0.53, 0.57)

0.53 (0.45, 0.61)

Apical

>0

0.61 (0.58, 0.64)

0.44 (0.33, 0.58)

Two views

>0

0.75 (0.71, 0.80)

0.61 (0.46, 0.77)

Two views

0.5

0.76 (0.71, 0.80)

0.64 (0.49, 0.79)

Two views

1.0

0.78 (0.74, 0.83)

0.65 (0.49, 0.81)

Two views

1.5

0.81 (0.76, 0.86)

n/aa

Two views

2.0

0.78 (0.71, 0.86)

n/aa

  1. CI 95 % confidence interval, PLAX parasternal long axis, PSAX parasternal short axis. Jet length refers to minimum jet length in at least one view. aAnalysis was not performed for jet lengths greater than the World Heart Federation diagnostic cut-off point