title: Inter-rater reliability of risk-assessment scales.
abstract: A local attempt to produce a pressure sore risk-assessment scale with greater inter-rater reliability than the Waterlow, Braden or Douglas scales failed despite the new scale's popularity with staff.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Watkinson
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009730:Nursing Assessment / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D015588:Observer Variation; D003668:Pressure Ulcer / Q000209:etiology / Q000451:nursing*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012307:Risk Factors