Categories of discrepancies and discrepancy and concordance rates by service
| Service* | Total ODN (%) | Category of discrepancy | Total DD | DR (%) | Total CD | CR (%) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I | II | III | IV | VI | ||||||
| *Medicine includes internal medicine, psychiatry, and dermatology; surgery includes all surgical specialties and obstetrics/gynaecology; Tropical Medicine Research Institute analysed with child health. | ||||||||||
| A&E, accident and emergency; CD, concordant diagnoses; CR, concordance rate; DD, discrepant diagnoses; DR, discrepancy rate; ICU, intensive care unit; OD, overall diagnoses. | ||||||||||
| Medicine | 190 (31.4) | 33 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 36 | 92 | 48.4 | 98 | 51.6 |
| A&E | 122 (20.2) | 31 | 6 | 12 | 1 | 31 | 81 | 66.4 | 41 | 33.6 |
| Child health | 106 (17.5) | 3 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 16 | 33 | 31.1 | 73 | 68.9 |
| Surgery | 107 (17.7) | 26 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 13 | 52 | 48.6 | 55 | 51.4 |
| ICU | 80 (13.2) | 4 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 35 | 43.8 | 45 | 52.5 |
| Total | 605 (100) | 97 | 47 | 35 | 8 | 106 | 293 | 48.4 | 312 | 51.6 |