Table 5

Agreement of triggering asynchrony between two independent scorers

Type of asynchronyScorer 1 n (% breaths)Scorer 2 n (% breaths)ICC (95% CI)Bland-Altman analysis
bias (95% limits of agreement)
Ineffective efforts484 (21%)466 (21%)0.94 (0.79 to 0.99)1.8 (−30.1 to 33.7)
Auto-triggering164 (7%)231 (10%)0.77 (0.19 to 0.94)−6.7 (−25.4 to 12.0)
Double triggering22 (<1%)11 (<1%)0.67 (0.11 to 0.91)1.1 (−1.9 to 4.1)
Multiple triggering4 (<1%)4 (<1%)1.000.0 (0.0 to 0.0)
  • ICC, intraclass correlation coefficient.