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Inter‐rater reliability of proxy simple symptom assessment scale between physician and nurse: a hospital‐based palliative care team setting
Author(s) -
MIYASHITA M.,
YASUDA M.,
BABA R.,
IWASE S.,
TERAMOTO R.,
NAKAGAWA K.,
KIZAWA Y.,
SHIMA Y.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
european journal of cancer care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.849
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1365-2354
pISSN - 0961-5423
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2354.2008.00967.x
Subject(s) - medicine , proxy (statistics) , palliative care , inter rater reliability , scale (ratio) , nursing , reliability (semiconductor) , family medicine , rating scale , statistics , power (physics) , physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics
MIYASHITA M., YASUDA M., BABA R., IWASE S., TERAMOTO R., NAKAGAWA K., KIZAWA Y. & SHIMA Y. (2009) European Journal of Cancer Care 19 , 124–130
Inter‐rater reliability of proxy simple symptom assessment scale between physician and nurse: a hospital‐based palliative care team setting Symptom management in palliative care requires reliable symptom assessment. We assessed the inter‐rater reliability of a simple proxy symptom‐assessment scale using the Japanese version of the Support Team Assessment Schedule (STAS‐J) in a hospital‐based palliative care team (HPCT) setting. By doing this, we assessed symptoms in a series of consecutive patients at two university hospitals with certified HPCTs within 2 days of referral and 7 days after. A physician and nurse assessed 20 symptoms. In total, 120 patients were assessed within 2 days of referral and 92 patients at 7 days after referral. As a result, we find that the intra‐class correlation coefficients were 0.02–0.89 at referral and 0.20–0.92 at 7 days after. The perfect concordance rates were 37–89% at referral and 53–96% at 7 days after. The perfect or ±1 concordance rates were 71–97% at referral and 73–100% at 7 days after. In conclusion, the symptom item of the STAS‐J had high inter‐rater reliability.