Development and psychometric testing of the clinician readiness for measuring outcomes scale

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 76-84

  Bowman, Julia ^a   Lannin, Natasha ^b   Cook, Catherine ^a   McCluskey, Annie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Allied health; Behaviour change; Outcome measurement; Transtheoretical Model

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTENT VALIDITY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; EVALUATION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEW SOUTH WALES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 60449096991     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2008.00957.x     Document Type: Article

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