title: [Assessing the inter-rater reliability of an instrument for the classification of patients--Kappa's quotient].
abstract: This study aimed to determine the reliability of Perroca's instrument model for classifying patients. Fifty patients randomly chosen were assessed by the nurses of the General Intensive Unit Care of a medical school hospital. Kappa's quotient was used to observe the concordance degree of the total scores by the nurses. The reliability analysis showed a Kappa between 0.68 and 0.90 with 95% of CI, showing a good concordance. Therefore, this study showed that this instrument model has drawn evidence of reliability.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Enfermagem Especializada da FAMERP, S. José Rio Preto. marga@westnet.com.br
authors.forename: Márcia Galan
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Perroca
authors.forename: Raquel Rapone
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Gaidzinski
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009730:Nursing Assessment / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D012015:Reference Standards; D015203:Reproducibility of Results
vernacular_title: Avaliando a confiabilidade interavaliadores de um instrumento para classificação de pacientes--coeficiente kappa.