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Table 1 Agreement between Tactile Temperature Assessment of Caregivers vs Doctors and Caregivers vs Nurses

From: Detection of fever in children emergency care: comparisons of tactile and rectal temperatures in Nigerian children

 

Caregivers

   
 

Fever

No fever

All subjects

Kappa statistics

 

n

% of all subjects

n

% of all subjects

n

% of all subjects

Value

95% CI

P

Doctors

         

   Fever

149

81.9

7

3.8

156

85.7

0.568

0.383 - 0.711

0.00

   No fever

11

6.0

15

8.2

26

14.3

   

Nurses

         

   Fever

151

83.0

6

3.3

157

86.3

0.634

0.449 - 766

0.00

   No fever

9

4.9

16

8.8

25

13.7

   
  1. K - Kappa statistics, CI - Confidence Interval