The Patient Care Ownership Scale: Development of an Instrument to Measure Patient Care Ownership Among Internal Medicine Trainees.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patient care ownership is essential to delivering high-quality medical care but appears to be eroding among trainees. The lack of an objective measure has limited the study of ownership in physicians.

Objective

To develop an instrument to measure psychological ownership of patient care.

Design

Cross-sectional study.

Participants

Internal medicine trainees in a large, academic hospital completing an inpatient rotation.

Main measures

Our scale prototype adapted an existing ownership scale (developed in the non-medical setting) based on themes identified in qualitative studies of patient care ownership. We conducted cognitive interviews to determine face validity of the scale items. Our finalized scale measures ownership's key constructs: advocac

SUBMITTER: Djulbegovic M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6667594 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature