Table 1

Contingency table showing the overall level of agreement between the participants' assays and the organising laboratory's assay, on 152 breast carcinomas

Organising laboratory's IHC assay
Negative (0)Low (2, 3)Medium (4, 5)High (6, 7)Total
Negative, low, medium, and high refer to relative oestrogen receptor expression of the 152 in house breast carcinomas as evaluated by the “Quick score” method, with the Quick scores in parenthesis.
Participants' IHC assays
Negative (0)3328
Low (2, 3)361524
Medium (4, 5)173442
High (6, 7)67278
Total3719123152