Items in Picker's questionnaire are often analyzed and presented individually, one item at a time (e.g., item-by-item box plots of disclosure as shown in Figure 1).
To overcome the drawback of individual item-by-item box plots of disclosure for patient views on healthcare service quality, we propose to inspect interrelationships among items that measure a common entity.
The KIDMAP on the Internet provided more interpretable and visualized message than traditional item-by-item box plots of disclosure.
We use Rasch measurement to construct an interval logic scale for patient satisfaction on hospital performance, utilize fit statistics to detect aberrant response pattern, and develop a visual representation on website, Web-KIDMAP, to overcome the drawback in traditional individual item-by-item box plots of disclosure for patient views on hospital service quality.
To develop the scorecard underlying the measurement of SDS, we use a normative catalogue of disclosure items based on prior research on voluntary disclosure practice, as well as on recommendations to use value reporting disclosure scorecards (e.g., Meek et al. 1995).
This paper shows the added interpretive value in subdividing the disclosure checklist to reflect the requirements of national accounting regulations, the location of disclosure items in the annual report, and limitations on the availability of regulations in official translation to the local language.
GPs who reported feeling highly competent were more in favour of disclosure (Items 19, 20 and 24 in Table 3), though not for disclosure using the terms "Alzheimer" or "dementia" (Items 21 and 22 in Table 3).
This subscale is comprised of items pertaining to fear of disclosure of HIV status and transmitting the infection and there was a strong correlation between having a high frequency of these two fears (p = 0.0001), with 33% of participants reporting that fears of both disclosure and infecting others were often/always on their mind.
We examined the impact of 3 increasingly private mailed survey conditions ranging from potentially identifiable to completely anonymous on survey response and on respondents' representativeness of the underlying sampling frame, completeness in answering sensitive survey items, and disclosure of sensitive information.
Three disclosure items of the SS refer to anticipated discrimination in personally relevant life areas (employers, friends and neighbourhood).
