Development of a Healthcare Quality Improvement Measurement Tool: Results of a Content Validity Study

• Published in: Hospital topics Vol. 80; no. 2; pp. 7 - 13
• Main Authors: Meurer, Steven J., Rubio, Doris McGartland, Counte, Michael A., Burroughs, Tom
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Taylor & Francis Group 2002; Taylor & Francis Inc
• Subjects: Agreements; Consensus; content validity index; Continuous quality improvement; CQI; CVI; Health administration; Health care; Health Services Research; Humans; Implementation; Leadership; Management Quality Circles; Measurement; Measures; Methods; Philosophy; Polls & surveys; Problem Solving; Psychometrics; Quality; Quality improvement; quality improvement implementation; Quality Indicators, Health Care; Quality standards; Quantitative psychology; Scandals; Surveys and Questionnaires; Total Quality Management - methods; United States; USA; Validity; United States
• ISSN: 0018-5868; 1939-9278
• DOI: 10.1080/00185860209597989

Current methods of measuring continuous quality improvement (CQI) implementation are too long and not comprehensive. A new survey for CQI implementation was developed and tested for content validity using a panel of 8 experts-7 from the United States and 1 from England. The survey was reduced from 70 items to 22. The resultant survey had a clarity interrater agreement (IR) of .91, a representativeness IR of .93, a clarity content validity index (CVI) of .73, and a representativeness CVI of .91. Content validity served as an excellent data reduction method in building a valid, concise, and comprehensive measure of CQI implementation.