Title :
Developing an Instrument for Information Quality for Clinical Decision Making
Author :
Byrd, Linda W. ; Byrd, Terry Anthony
Abstract :
This study develops a questionnaire to measure nurses´ perceptions of information quality for clinical decision making in hospital settings. The instrument is developed through a pretest, pilot test, and full survey process. A total of 214 questionnaires were received from chief nursing officers in the full survey process. Principal component analysis and Cronbach´s alpha are used to confirm the validity and reliability of the instrument, respectively. The reliability for each factor was above. 80, exceeding the common threshold of. 70 Research possibilities for the use of the instrument are briefly discussed.
Keywords :
decision support systems; information management; medical administrative data processing; principal component analysis; Cronbach alpha; clinical decision making; hospital setting; information quality instrument; nurse information quality perception; principal component analysis; Accuracy; Decision making; Hospitals; Instruments; Organizations; Reliability; accessible information; accurate information; clinical decision making; healthcare quality; information quality; information technology; interpretable information; quality of information; relevant information;
Conference_Titel :
System Science (HICSS), 2012 45th Hawaii International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Maui, HI
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1925-7
Electronic_ISBN :
1530-1605
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.2012.210
