Open AccessInter-Rater Reliability of Kampo Diagnosis for Chronic Diseases
Author(s) -
Ayako Maeda-Minami,
Tetsuhiro Yoshino,
Yuko Horiba,
Tomonori Nakamura,
Kenji Watanabe
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the journal of alternative and complementary medicine/journal of alternative and complementary medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.55
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1557-7708
pISSN - 1075-5535
DOI - 10.1089/acm.2020.0298
Subject(s) - kampo , medicine , reliability (semiconductor) , observational study , inter rater reliability , meta analysis , traditional medicine , alternative medicine , statistics , pathology , rating scale , quantum mechanics , power (physics) , physics , mathematics
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.