Development and testing of the Geriatric Care Assessment Practices (G-CAP) survey

BMC Geriatrics

Table 6 Test-retest reliability for individual categorical items

G-CAP Survey Section	Questions (items)	*Mean Weighted Kappa Coefficient* (Range)
Methods of Assessment	2a, 2b, 4a, 4b, 4c, 4e, 4f, 6a, 8a, 10e, 12b^a	0.64 (0.30–0.98)
Perceptions of the RAI-HC Assessment Tool	20	0.66 (0.37–0.95)
Perceptions of the RAI-HC Assessment Tool	22 a-f	0.56 (0.08–0.97)
Interdisciplinary Collaboration	24 a-d	0.65 (0.46–0.75)
Demographic Information	28, 30, 31, 33^b	0.62 (0.43–0.90)

^aOnly questions about tools that were rated to be used more than almost never (> 2 on a 7 point scale) were included in the analysis
^bQuestion 32 was excluded due to a glitch in the online question format and given that all providers were from the same home care agency

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