Assessing Neonatal Pain with NIPS and COMFORT-B: Evaluation of NICU’s Staff Competences

Table 4

COMFORT-B scale total score: interrater reliability.

	Kendall’s W coefficient  < .01		Krippendorff’s alpha coefficient (95% confidence interval)
	1^st measurement	2^nd measurement	1^st measurement	2^nd measurement
All observers; N = 35	0.807	0.877	0.6899 [0.6719–0.7081]	0.7414 [0.7279–0.7554]
Doctors; N = 17	0.851	0.906	0.7231 [0.6870–0.7559]	0.7846 [0.7622–0.8084]
Nurses; N = 18	0.783	0.853	0.6896 [0.6514–0.7271]	0.6866 [0.6557–0.7189]

N: number of observers.