• 1. School of Nursing, Fudan University; University Centre for Evidence-based Nursing: A Joanna Briggs Institute Centre of Excellence, Shanghai Evidence-based Nursing Center, Shanghai, 200032, P.R.China;
  • 2. National Center for Medical Service Administration, National Health Commission, Beijing, 100044, P.R.China;
WANG Qiang, Email: jason2019@sina.cn; HU Yan, Email: huyan@fudan.edu.cn
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Objectives To evaluate the reliability and validity on quality criteria for clinical nursing practice guidelines.Methods Five appraisers were included to assess two clinical nursing practice guidelines using the quality criteria for clinical nursing practice guidelines and AGREE Ⅱ. ICC and coefficient of consistency were adopted to assess the reliability and validity of the appraisal tools.Results ICC for two guidelines of AIDS and infusion by the quality criteria for clinical nursing practice guidelines were 0.979 and 0.890. ICC for two guidelines of AIDS and infusion by AGREE Ⅱ were 0.957 and 0.887. The coefficient of consistency for guidelines of AIDS and infusion by the two appraisal tools were 0.880 and 0.886, both were highly consistent.Conclusions The quality criteria for clinical nursing practice guidelines has good reliability and validity and can be used as appraisal tool for quality evaluation of clinical nursing practice guidelines. It is strongly recommended that the users should understand the appraisal tool or should be trained to decrease the bias.

Citation: ZHOU Yingfeng, WANG Qiang, HU Yan, XING Weijie, ZHANG Mengxing, ZHONG Jie, FU Liang. Evaluation of reliability and validity on quality criteria for clinical nursing practice guidelines in China. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2019, 19(1): 84-88. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.201807027 Copy

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