Figure Interpretation Assessment Tool-Health (FIAT-health) 2.0: from a scoring instrument to a critical appraisal tool

Reinie G. Gerrits; Niek S. Klazinga; Michael J. van den Berg; Dionne S. Kringos

doi:10.1186/s12874-019-0797-6

Table 5 Agreement per question per figure expressed as number of same answers as part of the total number of given answers

From: Figure Interpretation Assessment Tool-Health (FIAT-health) 2.0: from a scoring instrument to a critical appraisal tool

Nr.	Question	Figure 1	Figure 2	Figure 3	Figure 4
1a.	Is the publication in which the figure is reported a primary publication?	7/8	8/8	8/8	8/8
1b.	Is the primary publication known?	7/7	7/8	7/8	5/7^a
1c.	Is the primary publication verifiable?	7/7	8/8	7/8	4/7^a
3a.	Is the figure expressed in absolute terms?	4/8^a	6/8^a	5/8^a	6/8^a
3b.	Is the figure expressed in relative terms?	6/8^a	6/6	5/5	5/6
3c.	Does the figure you are assessing match the figure in the primary publication?	5/7^a	6/8^a	5/8^a	8/8
4b.	Does the definition of the subject of the figure you are assessing match the definition of the subject in the primary publication?	5/7^a	6/8^a	5/8^a	5/8^a
5b.	Does the definition of the population of the figure you are assessing match the definition in the primary publication?	6/7	5/8^a	6/8^a	5/8^a
6b.	Does the geographical area of the figure you are assessing match the geographical area in the primary publication?	6/7	5/8^a	8/8	8/8
7a	Is the time period in which the units are counted described in the primary publication?	8/8	6/8^a	7/8	5/8^a
7b.	Does the time period to which the figure applies match the time period in the primary publication?	6/7	4/8^a	7/8	6/8^a
8a.	Are the data on which the figure is based collected periodically?	8/8	5/8^a	6/8^a	7/8
8b.	Are the data on which the figure is based collected only once?	N.A.	5/5	2/2	1/1
9a.	Is the figure based on a sample?	8/8	5/8^a	7/8	7/8
9b.	Is the sample size known?	7/8	3/3	1/1	1/1
9c.	Is the response known?	8/8	2/3	1/1	1/1
9d.	Were important groups disregarded in the calculation of the figure?	7/8	2/3	1/1	N.A.
10a.	Were the data collected through an existing registration?	7/8	7/8	5/8^a	5/8^a
10b.	Is it known which registration was used?	1/1	7/7	2/3	3/3
11a.	Were the data collected through survey research?	8/8	6/8^a	7/8	7/8
11b.	Are the questions on which the figure is based described precisely?	7/8	5/6	1/1	1/1
11c.	Are the answer categories of the questions described?	7/8	6/6	1/1	1/1
12a.	Are the data collected through direct observations?	8/8	8/8	8/8	6/8^a
12b.	Is it known how the direct observations took place?	N.A.	N.A.	N.A.	2/2
13a.	Was the figure constructed through modelling?	7/8	5/8^a	8/8	6/8^a
13b.	Are the assumptions which were made in the model known?	1/1	2/3	8/8	3/6^a

^aanswers are inconsistent (if only one participant answered the question, the consistency rule does not apply)
N.A. not applicable as no answers were given

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