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When the complete set of 60 cases was used, agreement was moderate (\u03ba = 0.61, 95% confidence interval [95% CI] = 0.56\u20130.67). When the consensus set was used, agreement improved significantly (\u03ba = 0.75, 95% CI = 0.68\u20130.80). The \u03ba of the consensus set was higher than the complete set by 0.14 (95% CI = 0.12\u20130.16) (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &lt; 0.001). 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