TY - JOUR
T1 - Quantification of Agreement in Psychiatric Diagnosis Revisited
AU - Shrout, Patrick E.
AU - Spitzer, Robert L.
AU - Fleiss, Joseph L.
PY - 1987/2
Y1 - 1987/2
N2 - Eighteen years ago in this journal, Spitzer and colleagues1 published “Quantification of Agreement in Psychiatric Diagnosis,” in which they argued that a new measure, Cohen's k statistic,2 was the appropriate index of diagnostic agreement in psychiatry. They pointed out that other measures of diagnostic reliability then in use, such as the total percent agreement and the contingency coefficient, were flawed as indexes of agreement since they either overestimated the discriminating power of the diagnosticians or were affected by associations among the diagnoses other than strict agreement. The new statistic seemed to overcome the weaknesses of the other measures. It took into account the fact that raters agree by chance alone some of the time, and it only gave a perfect value if there was total agreement among the raters. Furthermore, generalizations of the simple k statistic were already available. This family of statistics could be used to assess.
AB - Eighteen years ago in this journal, Spitzer and colleagues1 published “Quantification of Agreement in Psychiatric Diagnosis,” in which they argued that a new measure, Cohen's k statistic,2 was the appropriate index of diagnostic agreement in psychiatry. They pointed out that other measures of diagnostic reliability then in use, such as the total percent agreement and the contingency coefficient, were flawed as indexes of agreement since they either overestimated the discriminating power of the diagnosticians or were affected by associations among the diagnoses other than strict agreement. The new statistic seemed to overcome the weaknesses of the other measures. It took into account the fact that raters agree by chance alone some of the time, and it only gave a perfect value if there was total agreement among the raters. Furthermore, generalizations of the simple k statistic were already available. This family of statistics could be used to assess.
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U2 - 10.1001/archpsyc.1987.01800140084013
DO - 10.1001/archpsyc.1987.01800140084013
M3 - Article
C2 - 3813814
AN - SCOPUS:0023137203
SN - 0003-990X
VL - 44
SP - 172
EP - 177
JO - Archives of General Psychiatry
JF - Archives of General Psychiatry
IS - 2
ER -