We are therefore unable to comment on whether the PPQ survey could accurately capture satisfaction with ICU care during a hospitalization after which the patient did not survive.
In contrast, two questions meant to capture satisfaction with individual attributes of home care had correlations with overall measures that were insignificant.
Oblique rotation was used because on theoretical grounds it is likely that different patient satisfaction factors are related to each other; e.g. a factor capturing global satisfaction is likely related to several of the factors capturing more specific satisfaction dimensions.
Although a variety of instruments capturing patient satisfaction exists, none of these measures were identified as appropriate for assessing patient satisfaction with medication used to evaluate the effect of treatment of chronic pain in the context of a clinical trial, which led to the development of the SAT.
The second factor contained 2 items capturing overall satisfaction.
"I get satisfaction from capturing things that I like, or things that I fantasize about.
54 Third, we did not capture satisfaction with a specific healthcare event and surveyed patients who had been treated with dialysis for 3 years on average.
Also, anecdotal evidence from hundreds of contacts with NHAs in the recent past, suggested to us that a specific NHA job-satisfaction instrument could better capture job satisfaction than preexisting instruments.
Like our financial stress measure, we also lag relationship satisfaction one period in order to capture relationship satisfaction at the interview prior to job loss.
An evaluation of the proposed strategy is performed using a hybrid genetic algorithm previously designed for the dynamic vehicle problem with time windows that we modified to capture customer satisfaction over multiple visits.
