Based on implemented probabilities, these decision items influence the further treatment procedures.
The eight items were "influence on the quality of care", "improvement of the data quality", "availability of the data", "reduction of input errors", "reporting", "quality assurance", "research and education" and "increased staff satisfaction".
This section also explored students' choice of 'area of work' on a short-term basis followed by questions on items influencing their professional career and professional goals they intend to achieve in the next five years.
Table 6 shows the percentages of agreement for each item's influence on dignity, as well as average agreement percentages across all items of the MIDAM-LTC (without the eight items of which we had decided to omit them).
To examine whether all items in the MIDAM-LTC were relevant for personal dignity, we first calculated the mean scores per item for influence on dignity and the percentage of respondents who indicated that the item (if present) influenced their dignity quite a lot or very much (score 4 or 5).
On average, 83% of the scores given for each item's influence on dignity were practically consistent over 1 week, and more than 80% of the residents gave consistent scores for the single item score for overall dignity.
Next, percentages of agreement were calculated for each item's influence on dignity in two different ways; we distinguished between exact agreement and agreement if we allowed the scores to differ one point on the 5-point scale.
An adequate intra-observer agreement is attributable to more than 83% of the residents who gave a practically consistent score for the each item's influence on dignity over a week, and to more than 80% of the residents who did this for the single item score for overall personal dignity.
This occurs when the response on one item influences the response on another item.
This indicates that the evaluation rule for addressing items has substantial influence on the results of factor analysis.
