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Evaluating a questionnaire to measure improvement initiatives in Swedish healthcare
BACKGROUND: Quality improvement initiatives have expanded recently within the healthcare sector. Studies have shown that less than 40% of these initiatives are successful, indicating the need for an instrument that can measure the progress and results of quality improvement initiatives and answer qu...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3575226/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23391160 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-13-48 |
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author | Andersson, Ann-Christine Elg, Mattias Perseius, Kent-Inge Idvall, Ewa |
author_facet | Andersson, Ann-Christine Elg, Mattias Perseius, Kent-Inge Idvall, Ewa |
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description | BACKGROUND: Quality improvement initiatives have expanded recently within the healthcare sector. Studies have shown that less than 40% of these initiatives are successful, indicating the need for an instrument that can measure the progress and results of quality improvement initiatives and answer questions about how quality initiatives are conducted. The aim of the present study was to develop and test an instrument to measure improvement process and outcome in Swedish healthcare. METHODS: A questionnaire, founded on the Minnesota Innovation Survey (MIS), was developed in several steps. Items were merged and answer alternatives were revised. Employees participating in a county council improvement program received the web-based questionnaire. Data was analysed by descriptive statistics and correlation analysis. The questionnaire psychometric properties were investigated and an exploratory factor analysis was conducted. RESULTS: The Swedish Improvement Measurement Questionnaire consists of 27 items. The Improvement Effectiveness Outcome dimension consists of three items and has a Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of 0.67. The Internal Improvement Processes dimension consists of eight sub-dimensions with a total of 24 items. Cronbach’s alpha coefficient for the complete dimension was 0.72. Three significant item correlations were found. A large involvement in the improvement initiative was shown and the majority of the respondents were satisfied with their work. CONCLUSIONS: The psychometric property tests suggest initial support for the questionnaire to study and evaluate quality improvement initiatives in Swedish healthcare settings. The overall satisfaction with the quality improvement initiative correlates positively to the awareness of individual responsibilities. |
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spelling | pubmed-35752262013-02-19 Evaluating a questionnaire to measure improvement initiatives in Swedish healthcare Andersson, Ann-Christine Elg, Mattias Perseius, Kent-Inge Idvall, Ewa BMC Health Serv Res Research Article BACKGROUND: Quality improvement initiatives have expanded recently within the healthcare sector. Studies have shown that less than 40% of these initiatives are successful, indicating the need for an instrument that can measure the progress and results of quality improvement initiatives and answer questions about how quality initiatives are conducted. The aim of the present study was to develop and test an instrument to measure improvement process and outcome in Swedish healthcare. METHODS: A questionnaire, founded on the Minnesota Innovation Survey (MIS), was developed in several steps. Items were merged and answer alternatives were revised. Employees participating in a county council improvement program received the web-based questionnaire. Data was analysed by descriptive statistics and correlation analysis. The questionnaire psychometric properties were investigated and an exploratory factor analysis was conducted. RESULTS: The Swedish Improvement Measurement Questionnaire consists of 27 items. The Improvement Effectiveness Outcome dimension consists of three items and has a Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of 0.67. The Internal Improvement Processes dimension consists of eight sub-dimensions with a total of 24 items. Cronbach’s alpha coefficient for the complete dimension was 0.72. Three significant item correlations were found. A large involvement in the improvement initiative was shown and the majority of the respondents were satisfied with their work. CONCLUSIONS: The psychometric property tests suggest initial support for the questionnaire to study and evaluate quality improvement initiatives in Swedish healthcare settings. The overall satisfaction with the quality improvement initiative correlates positively to the awareness of individual responsibilities. BioMed Central 2013-02-07 /pmc/articles/PMC3575226/ /pubmed/23391160 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-13-48 Text en Copyright ©2013 Andersson 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. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Andersson, Ann-Christine Elg, Mattias Perseius, Kent-Inge Idvall, Ewa Evaluating a questionnaire to measure improvement initiatives in Swedish healthcare |
title | Evaluating a questionnaire to measure improvement initiatives in Swedish healthcare |
title_full | Evaluating a questionnaire to measure improvement initiatives in Swedish healthcare |
title_fullStr | Evaluating a questionnaire to measure improvement initiatives in Swedish healthcare |
title_full_unstemmed | Evaluating a questionnaire to measure improvement initiatives in Swedish healthcare |
title_short | Evaluating a questionnaire to measure improvement initiatives in Swedish healthcare |
title_sort | evaluating a questionnaire to measure improvement initiatives in swedish healthcare |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3575226/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23391160 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-13-48 |
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