Avaliando a confiabilidade interavaliadores de um instrumento para classificação de pacientes--coeficiente kappa.

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.