Engelsk titel: Patient classification in anaesthetic nursing care - testing an instrument
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Författare:
Bergqvist I
;
Edberg AK
Email: inger.k.bergqvist@skane.se
Språk: Swe
Antal referenser: 23
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 05073822
Sammanfattning
The aim of this study was to investigate
validity and reliability of
an instrument for patient classification
in anaesthetic nursing
care. The study included two
parts. The first part involved two
panels of experts, one internal
consisting of nurse anaesthetists
from the local hospital, and one
external represented by nurse
anaesthetists from nine different
hospitals in Sweden and one in
Iceland. The internal experts gave
suggestions for improvements of
the existing instrument. Thereafter
the external experts gave their
opinion about both the internal
panels elucidation as well as the
existing instrument. The instrument
was thereafter adjusted in
concordance to their suggestions.
The second part involved an investigation
of the inter-rater reliability,
with one hundred double
ratings before the changes in the
instrument and one hundred
ratings after the changes in the
instrument. Statistical analyses
for inter-rater reliability were
performed with Spearmans correlation
coefficient. The first assessment
showed good inter-rater
reliability in four of thirteen
items, while the inter-rater reliability
on the second version showed
good agreement in eleven of
thirteen items. Results indicated
that the changes in the instrument
were positive in terms of reliability.
The instrument thus improved
in terms of validity and reliability
and may be of use in anaesthetic
wards with similar context.