Development of a Healthcare Quality Improvement Measurement Tool: Results of a Content Validity Study

Current methods of measuring continuous quality improvement (CQI) implementation are too long and not comprehensive. A new survey for CQI implementation was developed and tested for content validity using a panel of 8 experts-7 from the United States and 1 from England. The survey was reduced from 7...

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Published in:Hospital topics 2002, Vol.80 (2), p.7-13
Main Authors: Meurer, Steven J., Rubio, Doris McGartland, Counte, Michael A., Burroughs, Tom
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agreements
Consensus
content validity index
Continuous quality improvement
CQI
CVI
Health administration
Health care
Health Services Research
Humans
Implementation
Leadership
Management Quality Circles
Measurement
Measures
Methods
Philosophy
Polls & surveys
Problem Solving
Psychometrics
Quality
Quality improvement
quality improvement implementation
Quality Indicators, Health Care
Quality standards
Quantitative psychology
Scandals
Surveys and Questionnaires
Total Quality Management - methods
United States
USA
Validity
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Summary:Current methods of measuring continuous quality improvement (CQI) implementation are too long and not comprehensive. A new survey for CQI implementation was developed and tested for content validity using a panel of 8 experts-7 from the United States and 1 from England. The survey was reduced from 70 items to 22. The resultant survey had a clarity interrater agreement (IR) of .91, a representativeness IR of .93, a clarity content validity index (CVI) of .73, and a representativeness CVI of .91. Content validity served as an excellent data reduction method in building a valid, concise, and comprehensive measure of CQI implementation.
ISSN:0018-5868
1939-9278
DOI:10.1080/00185860209597989