title: The School Health Intensity Rating Scale: establishing reliability for practice.
abstract: It is important for school nurses to identify health care needs and nursing resources necessary to achieve desired health outcomes for the school-age population. The purpose of this study was to determine interrater reliability for the School Health Intensity Rating Scale (SHIRS), a tool developed to assess intensity of health care needs of the school-age population. Four school nurses assessed 20 fictitious student records using SHIRS. The SHIRS produced moderate kappa coefficients for more than half of the 15 parameters with 2 additional parameters near the moderate kappa range.
authors.affiliation: Box Butte General Hospital, Alliance, Nebraska, USA.
authors.forename: J K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Klahn
authors.forename: B J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Hays
authors.forename: C J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Iverson
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003953:Diagnosis-Related Groups / Q000145:classification; D005260:Female; D015276:Health Care Rationing / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D020380:Needs Assessment; D009730:Nursing Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D015588:Observer Variation; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012573:School Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D012720:Severity of Illness Index