Development and psychometric assessment of a Greek-language inpatient satisfaction questionnaire

Archives of Hellenic Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 79-89

  Aletras, V H ^a,b   Basiouri, F N ^b   Kontodimopoulos, N ^b   Ioannidou, D M ^a   Niakas, D A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

^b HELLENIC OPEN UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Hospital; Patient satisfaction; Questionnaire; Reliability; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONVERGENT VALIDITY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; DIVERGENT VALIDITY; GREECE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NURSING CARE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VALIDITY;

EID: 64649096485     PISSN: 11053992     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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