Assessment of variation in the Alberta Context Tool: the contribution of unit level contextual factors and specialty in Canadian pediatric acute care settings.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There are few validated measures of organizational context and none that we located are parsimonious and address modifiable characteristics of context. The Alberta Context Tool (ACT) was developed to meet this need. The instrument assesses 8 dimensions of context, which comprise 10 concepts. The purpose of this paper is to report evidence to further the validity argument for ACT. The specific objectives of this paper are to: (1) examine the extent to which the 10 ACT concepts discriminate between patient care units and (2) identify variables that significantly contribute to between-unit variation for each of the 10 concepts.

Methods

859 professional nurses (844 valid responses) working in medical, surgical and critical care units of 8 Canadian pediatric hospitals

SUBMITTER: Estabrooks CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3200177 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature