Inter-professional agreement and collaboration between extended scope physiotherapists and orthopaedic surgeons in an orthopaedic outpatient shoulder clinic – a mixed methods study

Table 5 Agreement on diagnoses between ESPs, OSs and common decision (n = 69, unless stated otherwise)

	Agreement Number (%, [95% CI])		Risk difference^a Percent point [95% CI] (p-value)
	ESP	OS	Risk difference^a Percent point [95% CI] (p-value)
Agreement on primary diagnosis	47 (68, [57; 79])	62^b (91, [84; 98])	−23 [−36; − 10] (< 0.01)
Agreement on combination of diagnoses	60 (87, [77; 94])	65 (94, [86; 98])	−7 [−17; 2] (0.14)
Partial agreement	68 (99, [96; 101])	68 (100, [NA])	−2 [− 4; 1] (0.31)

ESP Extended Scope Physiotherapist, OS Orthopaedic surgeon
^aDifference in percent point between ESPs and OSs with ESPs as reference (ESP-OS)
^b N = 68

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