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AIMS Ratings – Repeatability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

J. A. Bergen ,
N. B. Carter ,
J. Craig ,
D. MacFarlane ,
E. F. Smith  and
P. J. V. Beumont
J. A. Bergen*
Affiliation:
NSW Institute of Psychiatry, Dept of Psychiatry, University of Sydney
N. B. Carter
Affiliation:
Division of Mathematics and Statistics, Sydney
J. Craig
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Sydney
D. MacFarlane
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, University of Sydney
E. F. Smith
Affiliation:
Division of Mathematics and Statistics, Sydney
P. J. V. Beumont
Affiliation:
University of Sydney
*
∗Department of Community Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Missenden Road, Camperdown, 2050
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Abstract

In the present study, two raters, a psychologist and a nurse, each made five independent ratings of 30 different video-recorded patient-examinations. Having thus excluded patient fluctuation, individual-rater consistency and between-rater agreement over the 6 weeks of the study are examined. While between-rater agreement was apparently being maintained, mean AIMS scores steadily increased. In the hands of these raters, AIMS items 2 and 4 emerged as very reliable, while items 1, 6, and 7 showed high variability. Some patients appeared to be hard to rate. Differences between the study raters and the author JB highlight the issue: how reproducible is an AIMS rating?

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 152 , Issue 5 , May 1988 , pp. 670 - 673
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1988 

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