title: A Clinical Translation of the Article Titled "Development and Testing of the Combined Assessment of Psychiatric Environments (CAPE): A Patient-Centered Quality Measure for Inpatient Psychiatric Treatment".
abstract: BACKGROUND
  There is a need for an easy-to-use measure of meaningful and important inpatient psychiatric treatment.
  
  
  METHODS
  This is a clinical translation of a research article by Delaney and colleagues (this issue of JAPNA) that describes the development and testing of a new measure called the Combined Assessment of Psychiatric Environments (CAPE). The measure was tested with patients and staff on six different inpatient psychiatric units.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The staff and patient versions of the CAPE were shown to be valid (accurate measure of safe, patient-centered care) and reliable (precise measure that shows stability over time).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The CAPE is a new measure that can be used to examine staff and patient experiences of nursing practice on inpatient psychiatric units.
authors.affiliation: Colleen Corte, PhD, RN, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, USA ccorte@uic.edu.
authors.forename: Colleen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Corte
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D017060:Patient Satisfaction / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D018802:Patient-Centered Care / Q000379:methods*; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*
keywords: clinical application; instrument development; psychiatric nursing