Doctor Concordance and Discordance Frequencies for Infectious vs. Non-Infectious Disease

A tabular dataset comparing agreement and disagreement frequencies between infectious disease and non-infectious disease doctors, including the types of discrepancies detected. The dataset is 5.5 KB in size, authored by Juan Carlos Gómez de la Torre, and was last updated on April 17, 2026. It is available in XLS format under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze rates of diagnostic agreement between medical specialties based on the concordance/discordance frequencies.
• Identify common types of clinical discrepancies between doctors based on the discrepancy types mentioned.
• Compare decision-making patterns for infectious versus non-infectious disease cases.
• Benchmark inter-physician agreement metrics for quality improvement studies.

Strengths

• Dataset is small (5.5 KB), facilitating quick download and inspection.
• Data is openly licensed (CC-BY-4.0) for reuse and redistribution.
• Last update date is explicitly provided (2026-04 17:47:23).

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

figshare, authored by Juan Carlos Gómez de la Torre.

Collection Method

Method of data gathering is not specified in the provided metadata.

Time Range

Temporal coverage is not specified.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-17 17:47:23; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Spatial coverage is not specified.