The Patient Care Ownership Scale: External Validation of an Instrument that Measures Patient Care Ownership Among Internal Medicine Trainees-a Multi-Institutional Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patient care ownership improves accountability, clinical skills, and quality of patient care among resident physicians, but appears to be gradually eroding. Research is limited by the lack of a reliable, objective measure of ownership.

Objective

To validate the Patient Care Ownership Scale, an instrument that measures decision ownership among internal medicine residents.

Design

Multi-institutional, cross-sectional study using a 66-item, online survey that queried residents on ownership's key constructs (advocacy, responsibility, accountability, follow-through, knowledge, communication, initiative, continuity of care, autonomy, self-efficacy, and perceived ownership) as well as mood and burnout.

Participants

Internal medicine residents in five geograp

SUBMITTER: Djulbegovic M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8642535 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature