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Table 2 Inter-rater agreement measured Cohen´s Kappa with quadratic weighting, intra class correlation coefficient and Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient with 95 % confidence intervals of quantity and quality criteria of the first diagnosis of each participant

From: Do knowledge, knowledge sources and reasoning skills affect the accuracy of nursing diagnoses? a randomised study

Raters

Objects Na

K w

Intra Class Correlation

Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient

Quantity

    

1 vs 2

61

.82 (.70, .90)

.82 (.72, .89)

.82 (.72, .89)

3 vs 4

60

.83 (.75, .89)

.83 (.73, .89)

.84 (.74, .90)

2 vs 4

57

.72 (.55, .83)

.73 (.58, .83)

.73 (.57, .83)

5 vs 6

38

.82 (65,. 91)

.83 (.69, .91)

.82 (.68, .91)

7 vs 8

25

.75 (.61, .87)

.75 (.53, .88)

.75 (.53, .88)

Quality

    

1 vs 2

61

.75 (.59, .85)

.75 (.62, .84)

.76 (.63, .85)

3 vs 4

60

.76 (.55, .83)

.76 (.63, .85)

.76 (.63, .85)

2 vs 4

57

.73 (.59, .84)

.73 (.59, .83)

.73 (.59, .84)

5 vs 6

38

.74 (.51,. 87)

.75 (.57, .86)

.74 (.56, .86)

7 vs 8

25

.79 (.55, .91)

.80 (.61, .90)

.80 (.60, . 90)

  1. aQuality and quantity criteria of the accuracy measurement based on the D-Catch instrument.