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Evaluating the Performance of a Single-Item, Global, Estimate of Missed Nursing Care.
- Source :
- Journal of Nursing Measurement; 2017, Vol. 25 Issue 1, p121-141, 21p
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- Background and Purpose: Current measures of missed nursing care employ inventories of tasks which are rated for the frequency with which each is missed. These lists have shortcomings for research and clinical evaluation. There is a need for measures with less response burden, wider generalizability, and greater sensitivity and specificity for identifying poor quality care. Methods: We tested a single-item, global, measure using data from a large study of missed care in Australia. We employed traditional and innovative analysis techniques such as receiver operating characteristic curve and item response theory. Results: The single-item measure had adequate concurrent and convergent validity when compared to one list-format measure of missed care and strong sensitivity and specificity for identifying poor quality care. Conclusions: A well-crafted single-item measure, such as the one tested, can be useful for measuring missed nursing care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- CONFIDENCE intervals
STATISTICAL correlation
EXPERIMENTAL design
RESEARCH methodology
MEDICAL quality control
MEDICAL errors
MIDWIVES
NONPARAMETRIC statistics
NURSES
NURSES' attitudes
NURSING
QUESTIONNAIRES
RESEARCH
RESEARCH evaluation
STATISTICAL sampling
SCALE analysis (Psychology)
STATISTICS
WORLD Wide Web
SAMPLE size (Statistics)
DATA analysis
SECONDARY analysis
RECEIVER operating characteristic curves
RESEARCH methodology evaluation
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10613749
- Volume :
- 25
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Nursing Measurement
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 123223502
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1891/1061-3749.25.1.121