Sending out the importance questionnaire enabled us to exclude questions that are considered unimportant by patients and to retain questions that would be eliminated from the questionnaire based on their psychometric properties but were deemed important by patients.
In the course of listening to focus group discussion, we chose to eliminate the questions about color and tone, and also to eliminate questions about eyebrows, but retain questions on eyes, and add questions about respiratory rate and desaturation during both care time and feeding.
At the same time, he says the Federal Register notice gives the community a golden opportunity to make its case for retaining Question No. 12 and, by extension, the ACS itself.
Face validity of the 38 retained questions was first assessed by three separate groups: 20 GPs working in private practices, five experienced researchers in the field of general practice and 10 individual patients from different socioeconomic backgrounds.
Regarding question 12, the bureau said today that "[g]iven the importance of this small population group to the economy, the federal statistical system and the nation, bolstered by the new knowledge of historical precedent brought to light by commenters to the Federal Register notice, the Census Bureau therefore plans to retain this question on the 2016 ACS".
The authors retain the question about a "long walk" for assessing physical function.
Similarly, it backed away from dropping the marriage questions, writing that "in deference to the very large number of comments received on the Census Bureau proposal to eliminate those questions, the Census Bureau plans to retain those questions on the 2016 ACS".
In a Federal Register notice posted today, the Census Bureau says it received 1361 comments urging it to retain three questions (#21, #22, and #23) relating to marital history and status and 625 comments asking it to preserve the question (#12) about a resident's undergraduate college major.
MSP then made it possible to retain 16 questions and to organise the DiPCare-Q in three dimensions: material deprivation, social deprivation and health deprivation.
