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Table 8 Agreement between blinded observers, including or not including the local observer, for each scale item

From: Validation of the UNESP-Botucatu unidimensional composite pain scale for assessing postoperative pain in cattle

Scale items

Blinded observers

Local and blinded observers

 

MA

M2 and M4

MA

M2 and M4

Locomotion

0,50 (0,34 - 0,62)

0,44 (0,23 - 0,60)

0,52 (0,42 - 0,62)

0,45 (0,31 - 0,59)

Interactive behaviour

0,68 (0,56 - 0,75)

0,63 (0,50 - 0,74)

0,69 (0,62 - 0,75)

0,63 (0,52 - 0,73)

Activity

0,57 (0,45 - 0,67)

0,54 (0,38 - 0,67)

0,61 (0,52 - 0,69)

0,56 (0,44 - 0,67)

Appetite

0,80 (0,72 - 0,85)

0,76 (0,91 - 0,84)

0,80 (0,75 - 0,85)

0,77 (0,68 - 0,84)

Miscellaneous behaviours

0,66 (0,58 - 0,73)

0,72 (0,63 - 0,80)

0,71 (0,65 - 0,76)

0,75 (0,68 - 0,82)

  1. Agreement between blinded observers, including or not including the local observer, for all grouped assessment time points (preoperative and postoperative: before and after rescue analgesia and 24 hours after end of surgery) and for M2 and M4 grouped together (postoperative, after rescue analgesia and 24 hours after surgery) for the UNESP-Botucatu unidimensional pain scale for assessing acute postoperative pain in cattle using the intraclass correlation coefficient (95% CI). Interpretation: 0.81 - 1.0: very good; 0.61 - 0.80: good; 0.41 - 0.6: moderate; 0.21 - 0.4: fair; <0.2: poor.
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