TY - JOUR
T1 - Inter-Rater Reliability of Kampo Diagnosis for Chronic Diseases
AU - Maeda-Minami, Ayako
AU - Yoshino, Tetsuhiro
AU - Horiba, Yuko
AU - Nakamura, Tomonori
AU - Watanabe, Kenji
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Ayako Maeda-Minami et al. 2021; Published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. 2021.
PY - 2021/7
Y1 - 2021/7
N2 - This single-center observational study aimed to assess the inter-rater reliability (IRR) of Kampo medicine pattern diagnosis, which is modularized into three modules for chronic diseases, using 64 participants' information documents. The linearly weighted percentage of agreement and Gwet's agreement coefficient (AC) 2 for the deficiency-excess module, among three specialists, were 85.9% and 0.708, respectively. The unweighted percentage of agreement and Gwet's AC1 were 64.6% and 0.542 for the cold-heat, and 35.9% and 0.254 for the qi-blood-fluid modules, respectively. Our findings suggest that our modularization method may improve the IRR of Kampo medicine pattern diagnosis.
AB - This single-center observational study aimed to assess the inter-rater reliability (IRR) of Kampo medicine pattern diagnosis, which is modularized into three modules for chronic diseases, using 64 participants' information documents. The linearly weighted percentage of agreement and Gwet's agreement coefficient (AC) 2 for the deficiency-excess module, among three specialists, were 85.9% and 0.708, respectively. The unweighted percentage of agreement and Gwet's AC1 were 64.6% and 0.542 for the cold-heat, and 35.9% and 0.254 for the qi-blood-fluid modules, respectively. Our findings suggest that our modularization method may improve the IRR of Kampo medicine pattern diagnosis.
KW - Kampo
KW - inter-rater reliability
KW - pattern diagnosis
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U2 - 10.1089/acm.2020.0298
DO - 10.1089/acm.2020.0298
M3 - Article
C2 - 33861620
AN - SCOPUS:85110366660
SN - 1075-5535
VL - 27
SP - 613
EP - 616
JO - Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
JF - Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
IS - 7
ER -