The hospitals in question were requested to re-confirm these cases to the NIPH.
Responses to the Perceived Value of Certification Tool (PVCT), demographic questions, and certification experience questions were requested from 1,250 certificants, 2,000 noncertificants, and 1,250 administrators, with an overall response rate of 55.5%.
These questions were requested by WC users in Phase I while most healthcare providers did not feel it was part of their mandate to address psychological issues.
All patients or caretakers who participated in the exit interview (and therefore had costing questions) were requested to return to the same health facility one week later for a follow-up interview.
For example, 'What percentage of patients discharged from the intensive care unit to non-intensive care unit settings remain on stress ulcer prophylaxis?' For this type of question, the responder was requested to select from a range of percentages, such as 0⌓25%, 26⌓50%, 51⌓75%, or 76⌓100%.
The questionnaire was meant to be self-administered, but volunteers were allowed to clarify the meaning of questions, when this was requested.
For each dependent variable, there was an open question in which the respondent was requested to explain the reason for their choice.
Not all of my questions were requests for information.
Some of the questions were requests or calls for attention, but about two thirds were designed to elicit information: "What is the name for that?" Asking questions, says Chouinard, is "a central part of what it means to be a child".
(My hesitation is ultimately due to the fact that not all why-questions are requests for an explanation that identifies a cause, let alone a cause in the particular sense envisioned by Aristotle).
