Focus on research methods: Using measures of agreement to develop a taxonomy of passivity in dementia

Research in Nursing and Health

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 336-343

  Antonakos, Cathy L ^a   Colling, Kathleen B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

Author keywords

Expert raters; Kappa; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DEMENTIA; DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NURSING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

DEMENTIA; DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER; HUMAN; NURSING RESEARCH; OBSERVER VARIATION; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0035435073     PISSN: 01606891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nur.1034     Document Type: Article

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