Table 3 |
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Item difficulties with DIF-free and Fit MNSQ statistics of the 15 items in the 2003 English inpatient questionnaire of the Picker Institute Europe |
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No. |
Category & Item |
Difficulty |
MNSQ |
DIF-free |
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Logit |
SE |
Infit |
Outfit |
PTME§ |
p-value* |
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Admission to hospital |
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2 |
How organized was the care you received in A&E? |
-0.95 |
0.15 |
1.05 |
1.18 |
0.7 |
.736 |
|
5 |
Were you given enough notice of your date of admission? |
-1.08 |
0.15 |
1.02 |
0.94 |
0.69 |
.968 |
|
9 |
You feel wait a long time to get to a bed on a ward? |
-0.63 |
0.14 |
1.2 |
1.1 |
0.74 |
.116 |
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The Hospital and Ward |
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11 |
Ever bothered by noise at night from other patients? |
1.58 |
0.13 |
1.50 |
1.50 |
0.74 |
.289 |
|
12 |
Bothered by noise at night form hospital staff? |
-1.1 |
0.15 |
1.02 |
1.02 |
0.69 |
.287 |
|
Doctors |
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17 |
Having confidence and trust in the doctors treating you? |
-1.1 |
0.15 |
0.61 |
0.66 |
0.79 |
.553 |
|
18 |
Doctors talked in front of you as if you weren't there? |
-1.12 |
0.15 |
1.12 |
1.07 |
0.67 |
.120 |
|
Nurses |
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|
19 |
You get answers that you could understand from a nurse? |
-1.12 |
0.15 |
0.56 |
0.57 |
0.8 |
.114 |
|
23 |
Staff saying one thing and another quite different happened to you? |
-1.1 |
0.15 |
0.98 |
0.89 |
0.71 |
.199 |
|
24 |
Were you involved to be in decisions about your care and treatment? |
0.67 |
0.14 |
0.77 |
0.77 |
0.84 |
.068 |
|
27 |
Hospital staff talk about your worries and fears? |
2.22 |
0.13 |
0.56 |
0.52 |
0.81 |
.364 |
|
30 |
How long after using call button before you got the help you needed? |
0.42 |
0.14 |
0.91 |
1.21 |
0.66 |
.253 |
|
Pain |
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|
34 |
Hospital staff did everything they could to help you control your pain? |
-1.12 |
0.15 |
0.82 |
0.87 |
0.74 |
.906 |
|
Leaving Hospital |
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|
38 |
Staff explained the purpose of the medicines you could understand? |
-1.1 |
0.15 |
0.97 |
0.87 |
0.71 |
.972 |
|
39 |
Staff told you about medication side effects when going home? |
3.78 |
0.13 |
1.22 |
1.16 |
0.81 |
.407 |
|
41 |
Doctors or nurses gave your family information needed to help you? |
2.76 |
0.13 |
1.37 |
1.44 |
0.78 |
.090 |
|
42 |
Staff told you how to contact if worries happened after leaving? |
-0.3 |
0.14 |
1.33 |
1.19 |
0.73 |
.344 |
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Overall |
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44 |
How would you rate well the doctors and nurses worked together? |
-0.71 |
0.14 |
0.75 |
0.67 |
0.8 |
.303 |
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Mean |
0.00 |
0.14 |
0.99 |
0.98 |
0.75 |
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SD |
1.56 |
0.01 |
0.28 |
0.28 |
0.05 |
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Note. *DIF CHI-square probability from TABLE 30.4 of WINSTEPS software §biserial correlations |
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Chien et al. BMC Health Services Research 2009 9:135 doi:10.1186/1472-6963-9-135 |
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