Measuring patients' experience of nursing quality in acute hospitals: review of existing scales and development and psychometric validation of a new scale.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To provide an overview of existing instruments measuring patient-perceived quality of nursing care and to develop and psychometrically evaluate a new multidimensional scale applicable to the German acute care sector.

Design

We conducted a scale development and validation study involving the following phases: (1) performing a structured literature search to identify existing scales, (2) generating an initial pool of items using the results of the literature search and expert interviews, (3) coding/categorising the item pool, (4) organising a peer researcher workshop to select relevant items, (5) drafting the survey questionnaire and conducting cognitive pretesting, (6) pilot testing the survey questionnaire, (7) administering the survey to a large sample of hospital

SUBMITTER: Blume KS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10840043 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature