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

Table 5

NIPS total score: interrater reliability.

	Kendall’s W coefficient < 0.01		Krippendorff’s alpha coefficient (95% confidence interval)
	1st measurement	2^nd measurement	1^st measurement	2^nd measurement
All observers	0.766 (N = 36)	0.807 (N = 34)	0.6737 [0.6552–0.6927]	0.7302 [0.7151–0.7467]
Doctors	0.818 (N = 17)	0.869 (N = 16)	0.7488 [0.7138–0.7816]	0.7640 [0.7310–0.7951]
Nurses	0.736 (N = 19)	0.786 (N = 18)	0.6231 [0.5844–0.6606]	0.7244 [0.6971–0.7612]

N: number of observers.