title: Development of a healthcare quality improvement measurement tool: results of a content validity study.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Saint Louis University's School of Public Health, USA.
authors.forename: Steven J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Meurer
authors.forename: Doris McGartland
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Rubio
authors.forename: Michael A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Counte
authors.forename: Tom
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Burroughs
mesh_terms: D032921:Consensus; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D008332:Management Quality Circles; D010684:Philosophy; D011340:Problem Solving; D011594:Psychometrics; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D017749:Total Quality Management / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States