Table 5

Inter-rater reliability

KOSCHI category Description Fleiss kappa statistic
1DeadN/A
2Vegetative0.88
3aSevere disability0.63
3b0.33
4aModerate disability0.28
4b0.51
5aGood recovery0.53
5bIntact recovery0.66
  • Kappa statistics by KOSCHI category. Inter-rater reliability exercises were performed only on survivors, hence there are no KOSCHI category 1 (“dead”) observations. Values calculated after omitting observer 2 show a qualitatively very similar pattern.