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. 2016 Oct 5;22(1):28–36. doi: 10.1177/1355819616669736

Table 2.

Individual Inspector agreement on domain allocation and rating for the vignettes – Krippendorff’s alpha (Ka) and percentage agreement (PA).

Vignette Description Domain
Rating
S E C R W PA Ka (unit) I RI G O PA K a
V1 Interpreting services are easily accessible 5.1% 15.4% 8.2% 70.9% 0.3% 53% 0.41 1.0% 3.7% 92.9% 2.4% 87%
V2 Complementary therapies are available to patients nearing the end of life to aid relaxation and symptom control 0.7% 11.6% 73.3% 14.0% 0.3% 57% 0.45 0.7% 2.4% 59.4% 37.5% 49%
V3 Staff left ampules of medicines in labour rooms instead of locking them away 97.6% 1.4% 0.7% 0.3% 0.0% 95% 0.94 63.7% 35.3% 1.0% 0.0% 53%
V4 Managers are developing a plan to address bullying following concerns reported in the national annual staff survey 2.4% 1.4% 0.3% 18.2% 77.7% 64% 0.54 1.0% 50.7% 47.6% 0.7% 48%
V5 The children's community nursing team cannot access local authority systems to check for safeguarding issues on discharge 69.5% 19.2% 0.3% 8.9% 3.1% 53% 0.40 53.6% 45.1% 1.0% 0.3% 49%
V6 Nurses undertake hourly rounds 26.4% 25.6% 26.0% 8.9% 3.1% 27% 0.07 0.0% 3.4% 87.4% 9.2% 77%
V7 New medication was researched so that a patient with a very complex condition could return home to die as they preferred 1.0% 16.1% 30.5% 51.7% 0.7% 38% 0.22 0.3% 1.4% 37.3% 61.0% 51%
V8 40% of staff are not up to date with their mandatory training 42.5% 17.5% 0.0% 2.4% 37.7% 35% 0.18 45.2% 54.4% 0.3% 0.0% 50%
V9 Systems ensure that medical patients remain under the care of the medical team when moved to another ward 26.7% 49.3% 2.4% 14.0% 7.5% 34% 0.16 0.0% 5.5% 91.4% 3.1% 84%
V10 Frail elderly patients with complex needs are given additional guidance and rehabilitation to prepare for surgery 3.1% 34.2% 26.7% 34.9% 1.0% 31% 0.12 0.3% 1.7% 75.5% 22.4% 63%
Overall agree ment 49% 0.35 61% 0.79
LL95%CI 38% 0.17 53% 0.41
UL95%CI 62% 0.53 71% 0.90

Key for column headings: domains: S, safe; E, effective; C, caring; R, responsive; W, well-led.

Ratings: I, Inadequate; RI, Requires Improvement; G, Good; O, Outstanding.