Pain Management Table 3 Reliability of SCI pain classification systems

 

Kappa coefficient1

Percent agreement

Bryce and colleagues

.70

Unavailable

Cardenas

.68

Unavailable

Donovan

.55

50%-62%

IASP

.49

52%

Tunks

.49

27%

1Kappa coefficient is the proportion of agreement controlling for change agreement, with 1.0 representing perfect agreement between raters. Kappa coefficients greater than .60 or .70 reflect substantial interrater agreement.
This article was published in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America, 18, Ullrich, Pain Following Spinal Cord Injury, 217-233, Copyright Elsevier (2007).