title: Internal properties of the CASH nursing care evaluation instrument.
abstract: This article reports an analysis of the internal properties of an instrument that has been widely used to measure the quality of nursing care. Three-fourths of the 106 questions in the instrument failed to meet minimum standard psychometric test criteria. The better questions dealt with housekeeping rather than nursing duties; the instrument would appear to be reliable as a measure of cleanliness and orderliness, but not of actual nursing care.
mesh_terms: D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D006797:Housekeeping, Hospital / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D009731:Nursing Audit / Q000379:methods*; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000592:standards*; D009737:Nursing Records / Q000592:standards; D010347:Patient Care Planning / Q000592:standards; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014481:United States