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Reliability of INTERMED Spanish version and applicability in liver transplant patients: a cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: Integrated delivery methods in healthcare systems have been proposed to confront the increasing complexity in general health care. INTERMED is an empirically derived, observer-rated instrument to measure case complexity. It was intended as a visualized, action-oriented decision-support t...

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Autores principales: Lobo, Elena, Rabanaque, MªJosé, Bellido, MªLuisa, Lobo, Antonio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3142204/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21729313
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-11-160
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author Lobo, Elena
Rabanaque, MªJosé
Bellido, MªLuisa
Lobo, Antonio
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Rabanaque, MªJosé
Bellido, MªLuisa
Lobo, Antonio
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description BACKGROUND: Integrated delivery methods in healthcare systems have been proposed to confront the increasing complexity in general health care. INTERMED is an empirically derived, observer-rated instrument to measure case complexity. It was intended as a visualized, action-oriented decision-support tool for the early assessment of bio-psychosocial health risks and health needs. This study aims to document the reliability and applicability of the Spanish version of INTERMED in liver transplant patients. METHODS: Cross-sectional study of patients who had been included in the liver transplant waiting list. Two nurses interviewed the patients with INTERMED, and scored the instrument blind to each other. Kappa and w-kappa, Spearman, Kendall and intraclass correlation coefficients, and Cronbach's alfa were calculated. RESULTS: No patient refused the interview. Satisfactory coefficients were documented in most INTERMED items. Kappa was = 0.858 for the categorization of patients as "complex", and 21 of them (48.8%) were classified in this category, and were considered to need integrated treatment. CONCLUSIONS: The Spanish version of INTERMED is reliable. Its applicability in liver transplant patients adds to its generalizability.
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spelling pubmed-31422042011-07-23 Reliability of INTERMED Spanish version and applicability in liver transplant patients: a cross-sectional study Lobo, Elena Rabanaque, MªJosé Bellido, MªLuisa Lobo, Antonio BMC Health Serv Res Research Article BACKGROUND: Integrated delivery methods in healthcare systems have been proposed to confront the increasing complexity in general health care. INTERMED is an empirically derived, observer-rated instrument to measure case complexity. It was intended as a visualized, action-oriented decision-support tool for the early assessment of bio-psychosocial health risks and health needs. This study aims to document the reliability and applicability of the Spanish version of INTERMED in liver transplant patients. METHODS: Cross-sectional study of patients who had been included in the liver transplant waiting list. Two nurses interviewed the patients with INTERMED, and scored the instrument blind to each other. Kappa and w-kappa, Spearman, Kendall and intraclass correlation coefficients, and Cronbach's alfa were calculated. RESULTS: No patient refused the interview. Satisfactory coefficients were documented in most INTERMED items. Kappa was = 0.858 for the categorization of patients as "complex", and 21 of them (48.8%) were classified in this category, and were considered to need integrated treatment. CONCLUSIONS: The Spanish version of INTERMED is reliable. Its applicability in liver transplant patients adds to its generalizability. BioMed Central 2011-07-05 /pmc/articles/PMC3142204/ /pubmed/21729313 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-11-160 Text en Copyright ©2011 Lobo et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Bellido, MªLuisa
Lobo, Antonio
Reliability of INTERMED Spanish version and applicability in liver transplant patients: a cross-sectional study
title Reliability of INTERMED Spanish version and applicability in liver transplant patients: a cross-sectional study
title_full Reliability of INTERMED Spanish version and applicability in liver transplant patients: a cross-sectional study
title_fullStr Reliability of INTERMED Spanish version and applicability in liver transplant patients: a cross-sectional study
title_full_unstemmed Reliability of INTERMED Spanish version and applicability in liver transplant patients: a cross-sectional study
title_short Reliability of INTERMED Spanish version and applicability in liver transplant patients: a cross-sectional study
title_sort reliability of intermed spanish version and applicability in liver transplant patients: a cross-sectional study
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3142204/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21729313
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-11-160
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