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Table 1 Characteristics of sampled children under study (N = 97)

From: Measuring accuracy of plethysmography based respiratory rate measurement using pulse oximeter at a tertiary hospital in India

Variables

Mean

SD

Min

Max

Demographic

 Age (months)

15.31

12.3

2.5

54

 Gender (M/F)

74/23

   

Respiratory Diagnosis

 SPO2

94.92

4.5

80

100

 RR oximeter

48.41

13.3

22

86

 RR reference

48.81

13.7

21

88

 Bias (Pulse Oximeter –True value@Reference)

−0.40

3.31

−15

10

 Random Error (SD)

13.3

   

 RMSD (root mean square deviation)

3.31

   

Test of agreement

Correlation value

 

UCL

LCL

 Pearson Correlation

0.970**

0.001

  

 Concordance correlation coefficient

0.976**

0.006

0.958

0.981

 95% limits of agreement (for difference)

−0.40(mean)

3.309

6.084

−6.888

  1. UCL upper confidence limit, LCL Lower confidence limit