Open AccessDevelopment of a Healthcare Quality Improvement Measurement Tool: Results of a Content Validity Study
Author(s) -
Steven J. Meurer,
Doris McGartland Rubio,
Michael A. Counte,
Tom Burroughs
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
hospital topics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.202
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1939-9278
pISSN - 0018-5868
DOI - 10.1080/00185860209597989
Subject(s) - representativeness heuristic , content validity , clarity , quality management , index (typography) , inter rater reliability , quality (philosophy) , health care , psychology , computer science , operations management , statistics , psychometrics , engineering , mathematics , social psychology , rating scale , clinical psychology , political science , world wide web , biochemistry , chemistry , management system , law , epistemology , philosophy
Current methods of measuring continuous quality improvement (CQI) implementation are too long and not comprehensive. A new survey for CQI implementation was developed and tested for content validity using a panel of 8 experts--7 from the United States and 1 from England. The survey was reduced from 70 items to 22. The resultant survey had a clarity interrater agreement (IR) of .91, a representativeness IR of .93, a clarity content validity index (CVI) of .73, and a representativeness CVI of .91. Content validity served as an excellent data reduction method in building a valid, concise, and comprehensive measure of CQI implementation.
Accelerating Research
Robert Robinson Avenue,
Oxford Science Park, Oxford
OX4 4GP, United Kingdom
Address
John Eccles HouseRobert Robinson Avenue,
Oxford Science Park, Oxford
OX4 4GP, United Kingdom