title: Interrater reliability and clinical utility of the Personal Care Participation Assessment and Resource Tool (PC-PART) in an inpatient rehabilitation setting.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  We examined the interrater reliability and clinical utility of the Personal Care Participation Assessment and Resource Tool (PC-PART) in a rehabilitation setting.
  
  
  METHODS
  Ninety-six patients were recruited from the caseload of four occupational therapists. Patients were assessed on admission. Clinical utility was based on time to complete assessments.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Interrater reliability for the total score was very high (intraclass correlation coefficient = .91). Limits of agreement for the program indicated aggregate data from individual scores were within 1.3 units (range = -1.3 to 0.5) but individual scores would be within 10 units (range = -9.3 to 0.2). The PC-PART took 27 min to complete.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The PC-PART may have sufficient interrater reliability and clinical utility to evaluate program outcomes. The limits of agreement for rating individuals were relatively large, suggesting that it may be difficult to use the PC-PART to make clinical inferences about an individual patient.
authors.affiliation: Camilla Radia-George, MOT, is Manager, Subacute Ambulatory Services, La Trobe University, 183 Wattletree Road, Victoria 3144 Australia; crgeorge@cabrini.com.au, radiageorge@yahoo.co.uk.
authors.forename: Camilla
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Radia-George
authors.affiliation: Christine Imms, PhD, MSR, is Professor of Occupational Therapy, Head of Allied and Public Health, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Victoria.
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Imms
authors.affiliation: Nicholas F. Taylor, PhD, is Professor of Physiotherapy, La Trobe University, Eastern Health, Allied Health Research Office, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: Nicholas F
authors.initials: NF
authors.lastname: Taylor
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D016001:Confidence Intervals; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D005260:Female; D006779:Hospitals, Public; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015588:Observer Variation; D009788:Occupational Therapy; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D011594:Psychometrics; D012047:Rehabilitation Centers; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012648:Self Care