Focus on Quantitative Methods Interpreting Kappa Values for Two-Observer Nursing Diagnosis Data

Research in Nursing and Health

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 465-470

  Banerjee, Mousumi ^a   Fielding, Jane ^b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agreement; Bias; Kappa; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; METHODOLOGY; NURSING DIAGNOSIS; NURSING RESEARCH; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; NEW YORK; NURSING DIAGNOSIS; NURSING RESEARCH; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0031252481     PISSN: 01606891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-240X(199710)20:5<465::AID-NUR10>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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