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  • Healthcare Quality
  • Nursing Research
  • Patient Experience Measurement

Background:

  • Quality assessment in acute care is crucial for enhancing healthcare delivery.
  • Evaluating care quality requires instruments that capture both nurse and patient perspectives.
  • Valid and reliable measurement tools are essential for accurate quality assessment.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To describe and evaluate instruments used for quality assessment in acute care settings.
  • To identify measurement tools that assess quality from both nurse and patient viewpoints.
  • To highlight the importance of psychometric properties in quality assessment instruments.

Main Methods:

  • A literature search was conducted to identify relevant quality measurement instruments.
  • Instruments were appraised based on specific criteria, including psychometric properties and theoretical foundations.
  • The evaluation focused on questionnaires reflecting nurse and patient perspectives in multi-professional care.

Main Results:

  • Fourteen instruments were reviewed, with eight specifically representing nurse and patient views on quality.
  • Significant disparities were found in the theoretical underpinnings and psychometric properties of the evaluated instruments.
  • Several instruments lacked adequate validity or reliability data, with two missing validity and one missing reliability information.

Conclusions:

  • Healthcare managers need more valid and reliable instruments to effectively assess acute care quality.
  • The study emphasizes the critical need for rigorous evaluation of psychometric properties in quality measurement tools.
  • While questionnaires are traditionally used, only a limited number of current instruments are recommended for practical application in quality evaluation.