Table 2.

Summary of reported reliability of research utilization measures (N = 14 of 60 measures)

Class (No. of measures) [Citations]	Reliability
	Internal consistency Range	Stability Range	Inter-rater
Nurses Practice Questionnaire (1) [30-35,59-63]	α = 0.63 to 0.95	r = 0.83 to 0.99
Other Specific Practice Indices (1) [50]	α = 0.87
Research Utilization Questionnaire (1) [55,71,79,81,82,85,118-120,123,124]	α = 0.79 to 0.94
Edmonton Research Orientation Survey (1) [76-78,127]	α = 0.83 to 0.89
Knott and Wildvasky Standards (1) [20]	α = 0.87
Other General Research Utilization Indices (8) [24,36,50,73,84,101,103,105]	α = 0.73 to 0.94	r = 0.88
Other Single Items (1) [37]	NA		r = 0.80 to 0.91