Development and Validation of a Rapid Assessment Version of the Assessment Survey of Primary Care in China.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Measuring quality of primary care has attracted much attention around the world. Our team has developed and validated an Assessment Survey of Primary Care (ASPC) for evaluating quality of primary care in China. To facilitate the daily use of ASPC, this study aimed to develop and validate a rapid assessment version of ASPC (RA-ASPC) in China.

Methods

This is a multi-phase study on 21 experts and 1,184 patients from 12 primary care facilities in 10 cities in China. Importance, representativeness, easy understanding, and general applicability of each item in ASPC scale were rated to select the top two ranked items for constituting RA-ASPC. Reliability of RA-ASPC was tested by calculating both Cronbach's alpha and McDonald's omega coefficients. Structural validity was

SUBMITTER: Zhong C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9127135 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature