Inter rater reliability of Pressure Ulcer Scale for Healing (PUSH) in patients with chronic leg ulcers

Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem

Vera Lúcia Conceição De Gouveia Santos²  Danielle Sellmer¹  Marley Maciel Elias Massulo¹ 

[1] ,University of São Paulo College of Nursing ,Brazil

关键词: wound healing;    nursing assessment;    reproducibility of results;    cicatrización de heridas;    evaluación en enfermería;    reproducción de test;    cicatrização de feridas;    avaliação em enfermagem;    reprodutibilidade dos testes;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0104-11692007000300005

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

This study aimed to evaluate the inter rater reliability of the Pressure Ulcer Scale for Healing (PUSH), in its version adapted to the Portuguese language, in patients with chronic leg ulcers. Kappa index was used for the analysis. After accomplishing ethical issues, 41 patients with ulcers were examined. A total of 49% of the ulcers were located in the right leg and 36% of them were venous ulcers. The Kappa indices (0.97 to 1.00) obtained in the comparison between the observations of the clinical nurses and the stomal therapists for all sub-scales and for total score, confirmed the tool inter rater reliability, with statistical significance (p<0.001). The PUSH instrument, in its Portuguese adapted version, showed to be reliable to the use in patients with chronic leg ulcers. Further studies should be conducted to evaluate its prospective performance.

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