Utility of RAND/UCLA appropriateness method in validating multiple-choice questions on ECG

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Table 1 Success rate by category for each of the 9 panelists

		Success rate by category
Occupation	Subspeciality	Overall	Ischemia/infarction	Rhythms	Metabolic/inflammatory	Structural	Others
Cardiologist	Arrythmia	0.98	0.94	0.98	1.0	1.0	1.0
Cardiologist	Arrythmia	0.90	0.94	0.93	1.0	0.85	0.82
Cardiologist		0.91	0.94	0.95	0.86	0.92	0.82
Cardiologist		0.89	0.94	0.86	0.86	0.92	0.86
Cardiologist	ACHD	0.87	0.78	0.83	1.0	0.85	1.0
Emergency physician		0.71	0.89	0.73	0.57	0.54	0.68
Paramedic	EMT	0.97	1.0	0.96	1.0	0.92	0.95
Clinical laboratory technician		0.91	0.94	0.86	1.0	0.85	0.95
Registered nurse/medical student		0.87	0.78	0.86	1.0	0.92	0.86
Average score		0.89	0.91	0.88	0.92	0.86	0.88

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