(Geriatrics Physician 1) IC Intensive care Correlations >0.80 printed in bold Professionals working at the SICU highlighted the importance of continuity of care, giving fairly high rankings to "when a patient is transferred to another ward, relevant patient information is transferred as well" (st. 35).
In this study, we investigated the frequency of retrospective agreement to the applied neurocritical care in correlation to neurologic disease and functional outcome.
The FHCS was correlated with patient evaluations of care, but correlations were very weak (-0.17 < r < 0.03) and not statistically significant [ 20].
In contrast, two questions meant to capture satisfaction with individual attributes of home care had correlations with overall measures that were insignificant.
In terms of construct validity (Table 6), PACIC total scores were significantly associated with the single item measure of patient satisfaction with primary care (Spearman's correlation 0.24) and demonstrated higher correlations with shared decision-making (Spearman's correlation 0.47) and quality of care (Spearman's correlation 0.54).
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For a test to be regarded as a valid measure and to produce meaningful scores with interpretations and actions that are adequate and appropriate, apart from such external evidence, support should also be provided from many other internal aspects of validity unable to be taken care of by correlation coefficients.
However, in a more general intensive care population the correlation between BNP and invasive measurements is rather poor [ 30].
Other studies have shown in the intensive care unit that correlation between natriuretic peptide measurements and invasively measured haemodynamic parameters in the acute situation are relatively poor [ 6- 8].
