The Universal Patient Centredness Questionnaire: scaling approaches to reduce positive skew
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The Universal Patient Centeredness Questionnaire: scaling approaches to reduce positive skew
PURPOSE Surveys of patients' experiences typically show results that are indicative of positive experiences. Unbalanced response scales have reduced positive skew for responses to items within the Universal Patient Centeredness Questionnaire (UPC-Q). The objective of this study was to compare the unbalanced response scale with another unbalanced approach to scaling to assess whether the positiv...
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عنوان ژورنال: Patient Preference and Adherence
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1177-889X
DOI: 10.2147/ppa.s116424