Conclusion The overwhelming majority of the tracings (79%) were category II. There is moderate agreement in the interpretation of fetal heart rate categories using the NICHD "Three-Tier Fetal Heart Rate Interpretation System". The clinical value (predictive ability) of this new classification should...
Initial analyses stratified these women according to the timing of diagnosis [before (Group1: n=262) or during pregnancy (Group2: n=330)]. At baseline: CDC Clinical Category A (Group1=85%; Group2=92%, p=0.003); mean (卤SD) CD4+ count [Group1=404 (206), Group2=457 (228), p=...
The resulting Kappa statistics showed good agr eement for Category 1, poor for Category 2, and moderate for Category 3. ( Table ) Overall agreement was moderate. Interestingly, 5 tracings showed excellent agreement (kappa > 0.75) and 4 showed poor agreement (kappa < 0.35). We found a ...