The Patient-Reported Incident in Hospital Instrument (PRIH-I): assessments of data quality, test–retest reliability and hospital-level reliability.

Oyvind Bjertnaes; Kjersti Eeg Skudal; Hilde Hestad Iversen; Anne Karin Lindahl

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The Patient-Reported Incident in Hospital Instrument (PRIH-I): assessments of data quality, test–retest reliability and hospital-level reliability.

July 17, 2013

Bjertnaes O, Skudal KE, Iversen HH, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2013;22(9):743-51.

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The Patient-Reported Incident in Hospital Instrument, which consists of 13 questions about patient-perceived safety events during hospitalization, had satisfactory hospital-level reliability in this study.

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