Research article

Online assessment of patients' views on hospital performances using Rasch model's KIDMAP diagram

Tsair-Wei Chien^1,², Wen-Chung Wang³^†, Hsien-Yi Wang⁴ and Hung-Jung Lin^5,⁶^*

¹ Department of management, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Taiwan, Republic of China

² Department of Hospital and Health Care Administration, Chia-Nan University of Pharmacy and Science, Tainan, Taiwan, Republic of China

³ Assessment Research Center, Hong Kong Institute of Education, Tai Po, Hong Kong

⁴ Department of Nephrology, Chi Mei Medical Center, Taiwan, Republic of China

⁵ Department of Emergency Medicine, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Taiwan, Republic of China

⁶ Department of Biotechnology, Southern Taiwan University of Technology, Taiwan, Republic of China

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BMC Health Services Research 2009, 9:135 doi:10.1186/1472-6963-9-135

Published: 31 July 2009

Additional file 1:

The control file of WINSTEPS software. The data provided represent the Rasch analysis of the 18 items fitting to the model's expectations.

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