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Table 1 Reliability of Building Blocks adverse event (AE) classification system

From: Monitoring adverse social and medical events in public health trials: assessing predictors and interpretation against a proposed model of adverse event reporting

Form classification

Agreement (Cohen’s Kappa [13])

SAE Physical

0.923

SAE Mental

135/137 = 99%a

AE Physical

0.950

AE Mental

0.717

Social AE

0.936

Other event

136/137 = 99%a

Total

0.925

  1. acell counts were too low to calculate a Kappa. SAE serious adverse event