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The British Journal of Psychiatry 152: 670-673 (1988)
© 1988 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

AIMS ratings--repeatability

JA Bergen, NB Carter, J Craig, D Macfarlane, EF Smith and PJ Beumont
Dept of Psychiatry, University of Sydney.

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?




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