Measuring individualized nursing care: Assessment of reliability and validity of three scales

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 77-85

  Suhonen, Riitta ^a,b   Schmidt, Lee A ^c   Radwin, Laurel ^d  

^a Forssa Hospital   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Individualized Care Scale; Instrument validation; Oncology Patients' Perceptions of the Quality of Nursing Care Scale; Reliability; Schmidt Perception of Nursing Care Survey; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING CARE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PSYCHOMETRY; STANDARD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING CARE; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 34249987108     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: 13652648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2007.04282.x     Document Type: Article

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