title: [Nursing report on patients' release. Do observations coincide?].
abstract: The Nursing Report upon a patient's release guarantees treatment continuity. The nursing supervisor carries out an annual internal audit of all reports. A second investigator reviews this audit. The authors want to show how a degree of concordance between these two observations is achieved. The authors analyzed 31 items in all the reports, a total of 233, filled out by the gynecology service in 2004. The Kappa index was used to evaluate the degree of concordance. The second investigator analyzed 15% of these reports. The kappa index was calculated and the authors evaluated the discrepancies of those items with k less than or equal to 0.80; concepts were redefined. The second investigator revises 15% of the reports and carried out a new analysis of the discrepancies. Finally this second researcher supervised the remaining 70% of the reports and carried out a final analysis.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Ginecología, Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid. mmorato.hdoc@salud.madrid.org
authors.forename: Miguel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Morató Miguel
authors.forename: Consuelo
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Vázquez Baltar
mesh_terms: D009737:Nursing Records / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D015588:Observer Variation; D010351:Patient Discharge; D011996:Records / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*