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We found the intra-rater agreement of nomas with respect to the diagnosis

to be fair to almost perfect Table 4 while the inter-rater agreement with


respect to the diagnosis was moderate to substantial Table 5. The reason
for the moderate inter-rater agreement possibly lay in the lack of agreement
in scoring the separate items and/or in the interpretation of some items
belonging to the diagnosis disorganization. It is remarkable that the items
that score lowest in Palmers study are the same items that caused confusion
and disagreement in our study. What struck us was that one assessor would
attach a different diagnosis to the same score than would the other assessor.
In particular, this was the case for the items inconsistent jaw degree and
arrhythmic jaw/tongue movements.

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