Nursing practice and research often require the use of one measurement
method in place of another, creating the need to know how well one cl
inical measurement method approximates another. The usual statistical
analyses for assessing agreement between measurement methods are the c
orrelation coefficient and the paired t test. This article suggests th
at these statistical methods do not address the question of agreement.
It proposes the limits of agreement as a more informative analysis wh
en a researcher is interested in replacing one measurement method with
another. The application of limits of agreement analysis to assess re
peatability of one measurement method is also introduced.