Table 1.

Reliabilities of Abstract Reviews by Family Medicine Meeting, Year, and Submission Category

Submission by Year, Meeting, CategoryN, SubmissionsNumber of Reviews, MeanIntracluster Correlation Coefficients (95% CI)Reliability of Within-Abstract Mean Score (95% CI)
Abstract-LevelReviewer-Level
North American Primary Care Research Group
 2016 oral presentation on completed research3922.00.18 (0.09-0.26)0.22 (0.15-0.30)0.30 (0.17-0.41)
 2017 oral presentation on completed research4002.00.15 (0.08-0.24)0.25 (0.17-0.33)0.26 (0.15-0.39)
 2018 oral presentation on completed research3882.00.17 (0.08-0.26)0.15 (0.08-0.26)0.29 (0.15-0.41)
 2019 oral presentation on completed research3743.00.10 (0.03-0.16)*0.24 (0.08-0.36)
 2019 poster on completed research1392.00.03 (0.00-0.21)*0.07 (0.00-0.34)
 2019 poster on research in progress2382.00.11 (0.00-0.24)*0.18 (0.00-0.38)
 2019 workshop412.90.00 (0.00-0.18)*0.00 (0.00-0.39)
Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, 2018 Spring Meeting
 Completed research poster303.00.33 (0.11-0.55)0.11 (0.00-0.27)0.60 (0.27-0.79)
 Completed research project753.00.50 (0.37-0.63)0.08 (0.00-0.16)0.75 (0.64-0.84)
 Completed scholarly project372.90.21 (0.02-0.41)0.34 (0.00-0.72)0.44 (0.06-0.67)
 Completed scholarly project poster492.50.18 (0.00-0.40)0.15 (0.00-0.35)0.35 (0.00-0.63)
 Developing scholarly project poster1122.30.13 (0.02-0.24)0.37 (0.16-0.58)0.25 (0.04-0.42)
 Trainee work-in-progress poster2442.00.27 (0.16-0.38)0.22 (0.04-0.40)0.42 (0.28-0.55)
 Lecture discussion2382.90.17 (0.10-0.25)0.22 (0.06-0.38)0.37 (0.24-0.49)
 Panel discussion203.00.20 (0.00-0.44)0.19 (0.00-0.48)0.42 (0.00-0.70)
 Pre-conference workshop147.00.34 (0.12-0.56)0.16 (0.00-0.35)0.78 (0.49-0.90)
 Scholarly topic roundtable discussion892.90.12 (0.01-0.24)0.16 (0.01-0.31)0.28 (0.03-0.48)
 Seminar1803.00.16 (0.07-0.24)0.15 (0.00-0.29)0.36 (0.18-0.49)
 Workshop573.00.33 (0.17-0.49)0.10 (0.00-0.26)0.60 (0.38-0.74)
  • * Reviewer identifiers were not available for the 2019 North American Primary Care Research Group meeting, preventing estimation of reviewer-level ICCs.

  • CI, confidence interval; ICCs, intracluster correlation coefficients.