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Table 6 Agreement between ESPs and OSs on treatment (n = 68)

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

Treatment category

Agreement

Number (%, [95% CI])

Agreement

Kappa

Agreement

PABAK (PI; BI)

Physiotherapy

46 (68, [57; 79])

κ = 0.33

0.35 (0.18; 0.03)

Steroid injection

50 (74, [63; 84])

κ = 0.16

0.47 (0.62; 0.12)

Diagnostic imaging

55 (81, [72; 90])

κ = 0.56

0.62 (−0.37; − 0.04)

Surgery

63 (93, [86; 99])

κ = 0.41

0.85 (0.87; 0.01)

No intervention

68 (100, [NA])

NA

NA

  1. Abbreviations: CI Confidence interval, PABAK Prevalence-adjusted and bias-adjusted kappa, PI Prevalence index, BI Bias index