Table 2.

Variables influencing the agreement among nurses in percieved pain categories of 162 patients

			univariat analysis		multivariat analysis (1)
Variable	no. of agreements	% of agreements	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI
gender
female	50	68%	1
male	64	72%	1.2	0.6-2.3
age group
< 20 yrs	23	58%	1
20-40 yrs	35	74%	2.1	0.9-5.4	2.0	0.6-7.1
41-60 yrs	24	75%	2.2	0.8-6.1
61-80 yrs	28	80%	2.9	1.0-8.4
> = 80 yrs	4	50%	0.7	0.2-3.4
specialty
surgical	37	77%	1
ortopaedic	77	68%	0.6	0.3-1.4
significant other
not present	61	76%	1
present	53	65%	0.6	0.3-1.1
room
emergency room	80	68%	1
ward room	34	77%	1.6	0.7-3.6

(1) adjustment for gender, age, specialty, relative present and examination room