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Table 3 Agreement (weighted Cohen’s kappa) of EPs’ and ED nurses’ feeling rushed and overcrowded with NEDOCS score

From: Measuring emergency department crowding in an inner city hospital in The Netherlands

 

Nurse

EP

NEDOCS

 

Feeling rushed

Overcrowded

 

Nurse

Overcrowded

0.79

0.53

0.50

 

Feeling rushed

-

-

0.38

EP

Overcrowded

-

-

0.57

 

Feeling rushed

0.43

0.73

0.46

 

Composite variable*

-

-

0.53

  1. *The composite variable for ED overcrowding is the mean of the subjective scores for ED overcrowding of the ED nurse and EP and feeling rushed of the EP.