A Quantitative Reappraisal of a Qualitative Survey to Assess Reliability and Validity of the Life Care Planning Process

The professional practice of life care planning requires the practitioner to continually monitor the case specific relevance of the life care plans (LCP) produced. In the course of routine practice validation, one of the authors published the results of a retrospective survey of her pediatric case load (Casuto & Gumpel, 2003). The report of the outcomes of the survey was in the form of a qualitative description. This present study undertook the quantization of particular areas of the qualitative report in order to analytically appraise the accuracy of the descriptive report and further establish intra-planner reliability. This article reports the outcomes of the analysis based on the Therapies and Attendant Care sections of the LCPs surveyed.