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Validation of the Rainbow Model of Integrated Care Measurement Tools (RMIC-MTs) in renal care for patient and care providers
Authors: Pim P. Valentijn aff001; Fernando Pereira aff004; Christina W. Sterner aff005; Hubertus J. M. Vrijhoef aff001; Dirk Ruwaard aff002; Jörgen Hegbrant aff008; Giovanni F. M. Strippoli aff008
Authors place of work: Department of Patient and Care, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands aff001; Department of Health Services Research, Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI), Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands aff002; Integrated Care Evaluation, Essenburgh, Hierden, The Netherlands aff003; Strategy and Health Economics Office, Diaverum, Madrid, Spain aff004; Strategy and Health Economics Office, Diaverum, Gothenburg, Sweden aff005; Department of Family Medicine, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium aff006; Panaxea, Amsterdam, The Netherlands aff007; Diaverum Medical Scientific Office, Diaverum Sweden AB, Lund, Sweden aff008; Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia aff009; Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation, University of Bari, Bari, Italy aff010
Published in the journal: PLoS ONE 14(9)
Category: Research Article
doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0222593Summary
Introduction
Integrated service delivery is considered to be an essential condition for improving the management and health outcomes of people with chronic kidney disease (CKD). However, research on the assessment of integrated care by patients and care providers is hindered by the absence of brief, reliable, and valid measurement tools.
Objective
The aim of this study was to develop survey instruments for healthcare professionals and patients based on the Rainbow Model of Integrated Care (RMIC), and to evaluate their psychometric properties.
Design
The development process was based on the US Food and Drug Administration guidelines. This included item generation from systematic reviews of existing tools and expert opinion on clarity and content validity, involving renal care providers and chronic kidney patients. A cross-sectional, multi-centre design was used to test for internal consistency and construct validity.
Setting
Outpatient clinics in a large renal network.
Participants
A sample of 30.788 CKD patients, and 8.914 renal care providers.
Methods and analysis
Both survey instruments were developed using previous qualitative work and published literature. A multidisciplinary expert panel assessed the face and content validity of both instruments and following a pilot study, the psychometric properties of both instruments were explored. Exploratory factor analysis with principal axis factoring and with promax rotation was used to assess the underlying dimensions of both instruments; Cronbach’s alpha was used to determine the internal constancy reliability.
Results
17.512 patients (response rate: 56.9%) and 8.849 care providers (response rate: 69.5%) responded to the questionnaires. Factor analysis of the patient questionnaire yielded three internally consistent (Cronbach’s alpha > 0.7) factors: person-centeredness, clinical coordination, and professional coordination. Factor analysis of the provider questionnaire produced eight internally consistent (Cronbach’s alpha > 0.7) factors: person-centeredness, community centeredness, clinical coordination, professional coordination, organisational coordination, system coordination, technical and cultural competence. As hypothesised, care coordination patient and providers scores significantly correlated with questions about quality of care, treatment involvement, reported health, clinics’ organisational readiness, and external care coordination capacity.
Conclusion
This study provides evidence for the reliability and validity of the RMIC patient and provider questionnaires as generic tools to assess the experience with or perception of integrated renal care delivery. The instruments are recommended in future applications testing test-retest reliability, convergent and predictive validity, and responsiveness.
Keywords:
Biology and life sciences – Physical sciences – Research and analysis methods – Psychology – Social sciences – Sociology – Mathematics – Medicine and health sciences – statistics – Mathematical and statistical techniques – Statistical methods – Research design – Survey research – Research assessment – Culture – Questionnaires – Factor analysis – Algebra – Linear algebra – Eigenvalues – Nephrology – chronic kidney disease – Medical dialysis – Research validity – Psychometrics
Introduction
The number of people with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) across the world is growing due to the rising rates of diabetes mellitus, obesity, hypertension and ageing population [1]. While the number of CKD patients is growing, so are the complexities of their healthcare needs. In fact, 87% of this population has two or more chronic illnesses or multimorbidity [2]. A growing number of CKD patients is in need of health services from multiple providers and units over time, and hence request the coordinated delivery of care. Yet, studies have shown that CKD patients experience multiple obstacles like communication barriers, polypharmacy, delay in referral to a nephrologist, and lack of clear delineation of responsibilities among providers throughout their care treatment trajectory [3–5]. Reasons for this suboptimal situation are rooted in the complex interplay of clinical, professional, organisational and system factors influencing access and coordination of care. Valid and reliable measurement instruments are needed to assess how these factors influence the process of care coordination, and to pin-point key areas of improvement that need to be enhanced in delivering integrated renal care practice.
Over the past decade, integrated care research has been criticised for lacking both a clear definition and for methodological problems relating its measurement including validity and reliability [6]. Integrated care has shown great overlap with related concepts such as patient-centred care, and coordinated care [7,8], which makes it difficult to measure the concept. In general, coordinated care refers to teamwork between different care providers, and patient-centred care is about involving patients in their own care. However, integrated care is considered an overarching multidimensional concept not only including the patient involvement and collaboration among care providers but also the cross-boundary cooperation between different care organisations [7,8]. The World Health Organization (WHO) has defined integrated care as health services that are managed and delivered in a way so that patients receive a continuum of preventive and curative services according to their needs over time that is coordinated across different levels (e.g. clinical, professional, organizational) of the health system [9]. A guiding influence for this definition was the Rainbow Model of Integrated Care (RMIC) identifying the four core (person-centeredness; service coordination; professional coordination; and organisational coordination) and four ancillary (community-centeredness, technical competence, cultural competence; and system context) integrated care domains [10]. Throughout this article both coordinated care and integrated care are used interchangeable and refer to as ‘integrated care’.
A recent systematic review has shown that measurement instruments assessing integrated care have significant limitations [6]. Firstly, the psychometric properties (e.g. validity, reliability etc.) of most measurement instruments are of low to moderate quality. Secondly, the majority of existing instruments contains scales to assess the person-focused care, clinical and professional coordination domains within intuitional settings, and fail to assess the full range of integrated care domains as described by the RMIC. Finally, instruments with desirable psychometric properties have too many items to be practical for use in routine practice. In sum, there is a lack of brief, reliable, and validated measurement tools for assessing the multidimensional concept of integrated care from the perspectives of patients and care providers.
Based on the RMIC, a literature review and two international Delphi studies were conducted to develop the first version of a measurement tool (MT). The RMIC-MT had 44 items for assessing healthcare providers perceptions of the delivery of integrated care in terms of the eight domains of the RMIC using a four point Likert scale (S1 Table). This preliminary version of the RMIC-MT has been tested in the Netherlands [11], Australia [12], and Singapore [13]. These studies showed that the RMIC-MT provider version was a highly relevant and easy to use instrument with good psychometric properties for the clinical coordination, cultural competence and person-centeredness scales. However, further work was needed to improve the psychometric properties of the professional coordination, organisational coordination, system coordination, technical competence and community-centeredness scales, and respondents advised to develop a RMIC-MT patient version [14]. The aim of this study was to develop the RMIC-MT for CKD patients and renal care providers. And to explore the factor structure and psychometric properties of the RMIC-MT patient and provider version.
Methods
The development of the RMIC-MT patient and provider version was based on the PROM guidelines published by the US Food and Drug Administration [15], and encompassed three stages: 1) generation of items that represent the domains of the RMIC; 2) evaluation of face and content validity, clarity and feasibility; and 3) validation of the scales of the RMIC-MT patient and provider version (Fig 1).
Fig. 1. Study design.
Instrument development
Item generation
The preliminary version of the RMIC-MT was used to develop an improved patient and provider version [12,13]. The development was undertaken by reviewing two systematic reviews of care coordination and integration questionnaires [6,16], and an additional search of the grey literature. One researcher (PV) reviewed all questionnaires, and generated an item pool of clinician-reported and patient-reported measures that represented the domains of the RMIC.
Item evaluation
Two researchers (PV, FAP) independently reviewed the item pool of the RMIC-MT patient and provider version using a standardized evaluation form. Any discrepancies were resolved through iteration and discussion. Items were considered eligible if: 1) The content of an item reflected the core and ancillary domains of the RMIC for the provider version, and only the core domains for the patient version; 2) items provide evidence for its reliability, validity and responsiveness based on the COSMIN scores reported by Uijen, et al. (2012) [16] and Bautista, et al (2016) [6]; 3) items have a minimal user burden (i.e., ≤ 9 question items and simple response categories) for patient and care providers to complete.
Instrument evaluation
Assessment of face and content validity
An expert panel of seventeen persons in the UK was convened to assess the face and content validity of the RMIC-MT patient and provider version. This panel was multidisciplinary and represented the following stakeholder groups: 1) practitioners (e.g. nephrologist, nurse, or dietician); 2) managers (e.g. clinic managers, or human resource directors), and 3) service users (e.g. people with end-stage kidney disease and treated with haemodialysis). Each panel member was asked to review both instruments independently using the following criteria: 1) the clarity of the questions and instruction texts (yes or no); 2) the redundancy of the questions included (yes or no); and 3) the relevance of the questions included to measure integrated care on a four-point Likert scale ranging from (1) not relevant to (4) highly relevant. A space for comments for each question was provided and members were also asked to review the demographic questions. The first three criteria (i.e. clarity, redundancy, and relevance) were used to assess the face validity of both the RMIC-MT patient and provider version. The fourth criterion (relevance) was used to assess the content validity of both instruments. Based on the relevance score of each item, the Item Content Validity Index (I-CVI) was calculated. The I-CVI is the proportion of each individual item that received a rating of 3 or 4 by the expert panel. For each scale, a Scale Content Validity Index (S-CVI Ave) was calculated. This is the average of all the I-CVI’s of the individual items. An I-CVI of 0.78 and an S-CVI of 0.90 is considered to be excellent [17]. Based on these criteria, the final RMIC-MT patient and provider version were produced.
Testing for clarity and feasibility for use with patients
The RMIC-MT patient version was tested using a sample of 53 CKD patients selected from a collaborative network of 4 dialysis clinics in the UK. Patients were eligible to participate if they were aged over 18 years, had end-stage kidney disease, able to communicate in English, and consented to participate. The instrument was administered by a research assistant using a tablet computer. Data collection took place in June 2017. A standardized feedback form was used as a further evaluation of the RMIC-MT patient version for length, clarity, and presence of distressing questions [18]. In addition, patients were asked to identify which question, if any, they found difficult to answer, and if any of the questions had concerned or upset them. Space was provided for additional comments.
Translating into required languages
The English version of the RMIC-MT patient and provider version were translated to Spanish, Arabic, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Kazakh, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, and Swedish by a translation company with the relevant linguistic background. The translated versions of the RMIC-MT’s were independently reviewed against the original English version by a country manager or lead physician and minor revisions were made to adapt to the local language and culture. No points of misunderstanding were detected. Subsequently, the translated versions of the RMIC-MT patient and provider version were administrated for the study.
Instrument validation
Design
A cross-sectional study design including a convenience sample of 8.421 renal care providers (e.g. nephrologists, nurses, and management) and 30.788 CKD patients within an international collaborative network of 316 dialysis clinics in 19 countries (e.g. Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, Germany, Global, Hungary, Italy, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sweden, UK, and Uruguay) was used for the validation of the RMIC-MT patient and provider version. Participating clinics received a written information package consisting of an introduction letter and patient information sheet to inform the clinic managers, care providers and patients about the study’s purpose and data collection methods. The RMIC-MT’s were distributed to all clinic managers, care providers and patients in each of the participating site between 25 September-13 November 2017. All participants were asked written informed consent before enrolment in the study procedure. The RMIC-MT’s were completed online using a web-based survey platform. A forced answering procedure (i.e. respondents had to answer each question before they were allowed to proceed to the next question) was used to prevent missing answers [19]. Via clinic-specific codes assigned to each questionnaire, the response rate per clinic was checked and reported back to each dialysis clinic once a week during the data collection period.
Study population
In the participating clinics, care providers (i.e. nephrologist, nurse, psychologist, dietician, clinic managers) were considered eligible if they met the following criteria: 1) were actively involved in the clinical and/or administrative process of the dialysis clinic; and 2) worked at least one full month for at least 8 hours/week on their site. Care providers were excluded if they were unable or unwilling to provide informed consent. Patients were considered eligible to participate in the study if they met the following criteria: 1) aged 18 years or older; 2) end-stage kidney disease treated with haemodialysis for 90 days or longer. Patients were excluded if they: 1) were unable or unwilling to provide informed consent; 2) were unable to complete an online questionnaire even with help of carers; and 3) had a life expectancy less then 12 months.
Sample size calculation
The estimated minimal sample was based on the requirement of 10 subjects per item within each RMIC-MT questionnaire [20]. Given that the RMIC-MT provider questionnaire had 48 items and the patient questionnaire 24 items, the required sample size was 480 and 240. Thus, the study included a representative sample bigger than that recommend for the statistical analysis.
Study variables RMIC-MT provider version
The provider version assessed how renal care providers perceived the clinics ability to deliver integrated care on a five-point Likert scale (i.e. never, rarely, sometimes, often, always) on 48 items: person-centeredness (e.g. needs assessment), community-centeredness (e.g. population screening), service coordination (e.g. personal care plan), professional coordination (e.g. multidisciplinary team), organisational coordination (e.g. inter-organisational partnerships), system coordination (e.g. policy and financing), technical competence (e.g. interoperable medical records), and cultural competence (e.g. collaboration culture) [21]. Care providers were also asked to rate the overall perceived ability to coordinate care internally and externally on a 10-point scale ranging from very poor (1) to excellent (10) [19]. In addition, the adaptive reserve of the clinic was assessed using the resource and culture subscale on a five-point Likert scale derived from the work of Helfrich et al. [22]. Finally, data on type of profession were collected.
Study variables RMIC-MT patient version
The patient version assessed how patients experienced the integration of care on a five-point Likert scale (i.e. never, rarely, sometimes, often, always) with 24 items: person-centeredness (e.g. needs assessment), service coordination (e.g. personal care plan), professional coordination (e.g. multidisciplinary team), and organisational coordination (e.g. inter-organisational partnerships) [21]. Patients were also asked which care providers they had visited outside the dialysis clinics and how they perceived the cooperation with the dialysis clinic on a five-point Liker scale ranging from poor (1) to very good (5). In addition, patients were asked to rate the overall perceived coordination, quality and involvement of care on a 10-point scale ranging from very poor (1) to excellent (10) [19]. Finally, the following socio-demographic data were collected: age; gender; marital status; work status; and health status on a five-point Likert scale ranging from very poor (1) to very good (5) [23].
Statistical analysis
Data were entered, cleaned and checked before the analysis. Continues variables were expressed as mean and standard deviations. Frequencies and percentages were used for categorical variables. Distribution properties of responses to the RMIC-MT items were used to study the psychometric sensitivity. Items with a skewness (Sk) values > 3 and kurtoris (Ku) > 7, were considered to have psychometric sensitivity issues [24]. Items with a floor or ceiling effect of > 75% respondents were considered problematic and deleted [25].
Exploratory factor analysis with principal axis factoring extraction method and promax (oblique) rotation were used to assess the underlying structure of the RMIC-MT patient and provider questionnaires [26]. Barlett’s test of sphericity and Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) measurement of sampling adequacy were used to determine if the requirements for a factor analysis were met [27]. The number of factors to consider were determined by considering the eigenvalues (>1), scree plot, and interpretability of the factor. More importantly, the factors retained had to be guided theoretically [26]. Names were given for each identified factor based on the domains of the RMIC. Items that crossed loaded on more than 1 factor were placed with the factor that was most closely related conceptually. Items with poor factor loadings (< 0.6) were removed from the final questionnaires [26]. Additionally, a structural equation model with maximum likelihood was used to evaluate the explorative factor analysis model fit by using the standard fit indices: root-mean-square error of approximation RMSEA (≤0.06, 90% CI ≤0.06), standardized root-mean-square residual (SRMR) (≤0.08), comparative fit index (CFI) (≥0.95), Tucker-Lewis index (TLI) (≥0.95), and the chi-square/df ratio less then 3 [26].
The internal consistency was assessed using item-total correlations and Cronbach’s alpha. Item-total correlations assess the overall correlation between items within a scale, and should be ≥ 0.4. A Cronbach’s alpha of ≥ 0.70 was considered acceptable for a scale to be sufficiently reliable [28,29]. Pearson correlation coefficients (r) were calculated to assess whether each item was in the right subscale by correlating items with the subscale means. Items that correlated more highly on subscales other than the one to which it was assigned were eliminated [30,31].
Construct validity was assessed by calculating Pearson’s correlations between the integrated care scale scores and two overall perceived coordination questions within the RMIC-MT patient and provider version. Moderately positive associations (≥0.4) between integrated care and these correlates would indicate good construct validity [32]. For patients, the following hypotheses were tested based on previous studies [33]: 1) patients who have a better coordinated care experience are more satisfied with (a) quality of care, and (b) treatment involvement; 2) each instruments subscale aims to measure coordinated care experience and are therefore positively and significantly correlated with other subscales; and 3) patients who report their health as good are more positive regarding the care coordination experience than patients who report their health as poor. For care providers, the following hypotheses were tested: 1) care providers who indicate a better care coordination ability are more satisfied with (a) the internal adaptive reserve, and (b) external care coordination ability; and 2) each instruments subscale aims to measure the clinics coordinated care ability and are therefore positively and significantly correlated with other subscales. P-values <0.05 were considered statistically significant. All statistical analyses were done using SPSS version 23.0 (IBM SPSS Statistics, 2015), and AMOS statistical package version 23.
Ethics
Ethical approval for this study was waived by the Independent Review Board Nijmegen (IRBN) [34] because the study was considered noninterventional. The committee concluded that this study was conducted in accordance with the ethical principles that have their origin in the Declaration of Helsinki and that are consistent with good clinical practice (GCP). Written informed consent was obtained from each participant before collecting data.
Results
Instrument development
Based on two systematic reviews [6,16] and four additional publications [22,35–37], we identified 234 integrated care instruments, of which 58 were considered potentially eligible. Of these 58 instruments, we used the items of six instruments [25,35,37–40] to improve the professional, organisational, system and technical competence scales of the existing RMIC-MT provider version (73 items), and the items of four instruments [31,41–43] were selected to construct RMIC-MT patient version (24 items). After one revision round the RMIC-MT provider version consisted of 50 items grouped into eight domains, and the RMIC-MT patient version consisted of 28 items grouped into four domains.
Instrument evaluation
Face and content validity
Six practitioners, five managers, and one CKD patient participated (response rate = 71%) to review the RMIC-MT provider version, and four practitioners, three managers, and two CKD patients (response rate = 53%) to review the RMIC-MT patients’ version. The face validity scores of both the RMIC-MT patient and provider version are tabulated in Table 1. The most overlapping or redundant questions were found for the professional coordination scale for both the patient and provider version. In addition, the participants considered the cultural competence scale of the provider version redundant. Based on the qualitative comments made by the participants, items of the community centeredness, system coordination, and technical competence scales of the provider version were revised. In addition, questions of clinical coordination and professional coordination scales of the patient version were changed based on the qualitative comments made by the participants. Twenty-four of the 25 items of the RMIC-MT patient version had an excellent content validity (I-CVI ≥ 0.78), and one item had a fair content validity (I-CVI < 0.78). The average scale content validity (S-CVI Ave) for the RMIC-MT provider version ranged from 0.68 for the organisational integration scale and 0.97 for the person-focused care scale (Table 1). The S-CVI Ave for the entire RMIC-MT provider version was 0.85. The average scale content validity (S-CVI Ave) for the RMIC-MT patient version ranged from 0.75 for the organisational coordination scale and 0.96 for the person-centeredness scale (Table 1). The S-CVI Ave for the entire consumer questionnaire was 0.87.
Tab. 1. Face and content validity RMIC-MT patient and provider version.
Clarity and feasibility
Fifty-three CKD patients participated in the pilot study using the RMIC-MT patient version.
The average age of the patients in the sample was 67 years (SD 15) with 55% male and 45% female. The majority of the patients were retired (72%) and their care was coordinated by their nephrologist (89%) (S2 Table). The mean completion time for the RMIC-MT patient was 9 minutes (SD: 2.7), with a range of 5 to 20 minutes. Overall, 13% (n = 7) of patients had help completing the questionnaire (S3 Table). In addition, only one patient considered one question difficult, and none of the patients considered the questions upsetting. Based on the results of the feasibility study, it was decided that no changes to the instrument were indicated.
Instrument validation
Data collection
A total of 17.512 CKD patients (56.9% response rate) and 5.849 care providers (69.5% response rate) completed the questionnaires. There were no missing values in the data because all items were set as required (see details in method section). The mean age of the patients was 61.9 (SD: 15.5, range 4–118) years. A small majority of the patients were male (51.9%, n = 9084) and retired (52.3%, n = 9164). The majority of care providers were represented by nurses (54.4%, n = 3179). The demographic and characteristics of the participants are listed in Table 2.
Tab. 2. Characteristics of the study participants.
Item score distribution
No items of the RMIC-MT patient and provider version presented severe floor, ceiling, Sk and Ku values, which indicates the adequate psychometric sensitivity of the items. S4 Table presents the summary measures of the items of the RMIC-MT patient and provider version.
Factor analysis
The KMO test of sample adequacy (0.97) and the Barlett’s test of sphericity (p < 0.0001) indicated that a factor analysis for the RMIC-MT patient version was appropriate. The analysis yielded two factors with eigenvalues > 1, which accounted for 51.2% of the variance. And two factors with eigenvalues < 1, accounted for 5.8% of the variance were also included because they were interpretable based on the RMIC. Hence a four-factor solution was chosen. Factor 1 was named ‘clinical coordination’ (6 items, 46.6% of variance), factor 2 ‘professional coordination’ (6 items, 4.6% variance), factor 3 ‘organisational coordination’ (6 items, 3.5% variance), and factor 4 ‘person-centeredness’ (2 items, 2.3% variance). In this solution, 8 items were omitted (i.e. item 8, 7, 11, 12, 13, 15, 22, and 19) because the factor loadings were below < 0.6, see Table 3. Regarding model fit (4-factors, 16 items), the following tests of significance and goodness-of-fit measures were obtained: x2 (98) = 5587.7; p <0.0001; x2/df = 57 | CFI = .97| TLI = 0.97| RMSEA (HI90) = .057(0.058) / SRMR = .033. Thus, the 4-factor explorative factor model showed an acceptable fit, except for the chi-square/df ratio.
Tab. 3. Factor analysis RMIC-MT patient version (n = 17,512).
In addition, the KMO test of sampling adequacy (0.95) and Barlett’s test of sphericity (p < 0.0001) indicated that the criteria for a factor analysis were also met for the RMIC-MT provider version. A nine-factor solution was obtained with a total of 48 items, which explained 57.6% of the variance. The analysis yielded six factors with eigenvalues > 1, which accounted for 53.2% of the variance. And three factors with eigenvalues < 1, accounted for 4,4% of the variance were also included because they were interpretable based on the RMIC.
Hence, a nine-factor solution was obtained. Factor 1 was named ‘cultural competence’ (8 items, 29.7% of variance), factor 2 ‘person-centeredness’ (5 items, 6.7% of variance), factor 3 ‘technical competence’ (5 items, 6.3% of variance), factor 4 ‘professional coordination’ (5 items, 5.2% of variance), factor 5 ‘clinical coordination’ (7 items, 3.0% of variance), factor 6 ‘Triple Aim’ (5 items, 2.3% of variance), factor 7 ‘clinical coordination’ (6 items, 1.7% of variance), factor 8 ‘system coordination’ (3 items, 1.4% of variance) and factor 9 ‘community centeredness’ (4 items, 1.3% of variance). In this solution, 12 items were omitted (i.e. item 47, 46, 48, 42, 36, 13, 14, 16, 15, 24, 21, and 2) because the factor loadings were below < 0.6, see Table 4. Regarding model fit (9-factors, 36 items), the following tests of significance and goodness-of-fit measures were obtained: x2 (558) = 6100.5.7; p <0.0001; x2/df = 10.9 | CFI = .96| TLI = 0.96| RMSEA (HI90) = .041(0,041) / SRMR = .026. In short, the 9-factor model showed an acceptable fit, except for the chi-square/df ratio.
Tab. 4. Factor analysis RMIC-MT provider version (n = 6,052).
Internal consistency
Internal consistency analysis showed that reliability assumptions were adequately met for all four scales of the RMIC-MT patient version. Item-total correlations exceeded 0.4 for all items, see S5 Table. Cronbach’s alpha ranged from 0.84 for the organisational coordination scale to 0.93 for the clinical coordination scale, see Table 5. Inspection of the correlation matrices revealed that all individual items highly correlated with their respective subscale then with the competing scales. Thus, the final RMIC-MT patient version is a reliable scale (alpha 0.94) comprising 16 patient experience items.
Tab. 5. Descriptive statistics and internal consistency of the RMIC-MT patient and provider version.
The internal consistency analysis also showed that the nine domains of the RMIC-MT provider version could be reliably measured. Item-total correlations exceeded 0.4 for all items, see S6 Table. The Cronbach’s alpha for the RMCI-MT provider version ranged from 0.90 for the system coordination, cultural competence, person-centeredness, and Triple Aim scale to 0.84 for the technical competence scale, see Table 5. Item scale correlations showed that all individual items highly correlated with their respective subscale compared with the competing scales. Hence, the RMIC-MT provider version is also a reliable instrument (alpha 0.94) of 36 items to measure integrated care.
Construct validity
All patient related hypotheses could be accepted, which confirms the construct validity of the RMIC-MT patient version. Patients who experienced better care coordination were more satisfied with the quality (r = 0.51, P <0.01) and treatment involvement (r = 0.40, P < 0.01), see Table 6. All subscales of the RMIC-MT patient version were strongly and significantly (P < 0.01) correlated with each other (r = 0.46–0.89). Finally, patients in poorer health experienced significantly (P < 0.01) poorer care coordination (r = 0.22).
Tab. 6. Correlation between scale scores RMIC-MT patient version (n = 13,191).
In addition, care providers who indicated a better care coordination ability were more satisfied about the adaptive reserve (r = 0.71, P <0.01) and external care coordination capacity (r = 0.59, P <0.01) of their clinic, see Table 7. All subscales of the RMIC-MT patient version were positively and significantly (P < 0.01) correlated with each other (r = 0.09–0.66). The strongest correlations were observed between ‘community-centeredness’ and ‘person-centeredness’ (r = 0.66, P <0.01), ‘system coordination’ and ‘organisational coordination’ (r = 0.63, P <0.01), and ‘triple aim’ and ‘clinical coordination’ (r = 0.62, P<0.01). Especially the perceived professional care coordination ability has small levels of correlation with the other scale scores (r = 0.09–0,24). Again, all provider related hypotheses could be accepted, which confirms the construct validity of the RMIC-MT provider version.
Tab. 7. Correlation between scale scores RMIC-MT provider version (n = 5,849).
Discussion
Principle findings
The RMIC-MT patient and provider version showed excellent face and content validity using an expert panel. The clarity and feasibility of the RMIC-MT patient was assessed by 53 CKD patients in a pilot study. Patients indicated that the survey instrument was easily understood and completed. The factor structure and psychometric properties of the RMIC-MT patient and provider survey instruments were tested in a cohort of 30,788 CKD patients and 8,421 renal care providers. Statistical analysis indicated that the internal consistency, reliability, and construct validity for both the RMIC-MT patient (16 items, 4 subscales) and provider version (36 items, 9 subscales) were good. The proposed models also passed the majority of goodness-to-fit test by using structural equation modelling. This suggests that the RMIC-MT is a valuable psychometric tool for evaluating care coordination as perceived by patients and care providers. Given the small number of items the utility is high to assess care coordination in routine practice.
Comparison with other studies
The factor analysis of the RMIC-MT patient version leads us to conclude that CKD patients do differentiate between distinct, complementary domains of integrated care (i.e. person-centred care, clinical coordination, professional coordination, and organisational coordination) as described by the RMIC [10]. Yet, the organisational coordination, system coordination and community-centeredness domains did not met the eigenvalue criteria of >1 within the RMIC-MT provider version. Possibly, this multi-dimensionality was not pronounced because the organisational coordination, system coordination and community-centeredness activities are not closely related to the clinical encounter of the dialysis clinics. In addition, previous studies have also shown that care providers find it difficult to differentiate between the organisational and system domains of integrated care [44].
Most of the variance of the RMIC-MT patient version was explained by the clinical coordination domain, which has also been accentuated by other measurement tools [6]. The organisational coordination, and person-centeredness domain of the RMIC-MT patient version did not meet the eigenvalue criteria of >1. This might be due to the fact that there are (cultural) differences between the organisational and person-centeredness experiences across countries and dialysis clinics. The majority of the items hypothesised to belong to the person-centeredness domain were absorbed by the clinical coordination or did not meet the inclusion criteria. It is noteworthy that the clinical coordination domain taps on aspects related to knowing and respecting the patients’ values, which is a critical aspect to tailor the care coordination process [45]. Studies have shown that physician recognition and advance knowledge of patients’ needs can have a positive effect on patient outcomes [46].
The RMIC-MT provider version yielded nine domains reflecting all the hypothesised domains of the RMIC (i.e. person-centeredness, community centeredness, clinical coordination, professional coordination, organisational coordination, system coordination, technical, cultural competence, and Triple Aim outcomes). The majority of care coordination tools that have been developed are restricted, and only measure aspects of the clinical and professional care coordination process [6,16]. Most of the variance of RMIC-MT provider version was explained by cultural competence. This finding indicates the importance of normative trust mechanisms in the care coordination process, which has not been accentuated in previous care coordination tools [6,16]. The person-centeredness and clinical coordination domain highlights the fact that delivering integrated care is a participatory process of co-creation between care providers and patients [47].
Compared to the RMIC-MT patient version, the clinical coordination domain of the RMIC-MT provider version explained a relatively small proportion of the variance. This might suggest that care providers consider the enabling ‘backstage process’ of integrated care delivery (e.g. cultural and technical competence) more important than the domains more closely related to the clinical encounter (e.g. clinical and professional coordination) [44]. Finally, the community-centeredness domain highlights the importance of population-orientation as a guiding principle of integrated care, which has not been considered as an aspect of integrated care in previous questionnaires [6,16].
Strengths and limitations
The strength of the RMIC-MT patient and provider version is its thoroughly development and validation process. Face and content validity are supported by using a conceptual model, results from previous validation studies, literature reviews, and multidisciplinary expert panel in the development of the RMIC-MTs questionnaires. Study results showed that both instruments had excellent face and content validity (S-CVI avg > 0.78). Usability of the RMIC-MT patient version was carefully pre-tested following the method as described by Aaronson et al. (2011) [18]. Factor analysis and good levels of internal consistencies (Cronbach alpha > 0.70) of the RMIC-MT patient and provider version subscales provide evidence of reliable and valid questionnaires. Especially the RMIC-MT patient version has good evidence for construct validity with the patient related hypotheses largely being met. The significant relationship between patient care coordination scores and quality, treatment involvement, and health follows previous findings [33,48–54]. To further establish construct validity in future research, it would be interesting to test whether patient care coordination scores correlate with provider care coordination scores at dialysis clinic level. With the exception of the professional coordination and technical competence subscales, the RMIC-MT provider version had also good evidence for construct validity. In the comparison of scale scores, those measuring the organisational aspects of integration (i.e. organisational and Triple Aim) had the highest levels of correlation. We found support that for the hypotheses that a clinics adaptive reserve is a prerequisite for a better care coordination process, which is an important finding [22]. The sample size and response rates of the participants were high, which strengthens our results for the CKD population and general applicability of the RMIC-MTs. Since the RMIC-MTs were developed using a non-disease specific approach, the instruments can probably be used in other settings and other patient groups, although applicability should be assessed before using it in other settings.
However, there are a number of study limitations. First, the limited number of CKD patients participating in the expert panel is cause of concern for the content validity of the RMIC-MT patient version. Future studies should explore in more details the content validity of the RMIC-MT patient version among a larger group of patients using the I-CVI. Second, we did not use a back-translation process for ensuring linguistical validation. Although all translations were independently reviewed by bilingual experts, future research is needed on the conceptual and cultural equivalence of non-English versions of the RMIC-MT patient and provider versions. Third, while validity of the RMIC-MTs was addressed in the current study, more research is needed to assess the test-retest reliability, responsiveness to change, and construct validity against external criteria (e.g. satisfaction, quality of care, access of care) [55]. Testing the reliability (test-retest), responsiveness and construct validity of the RMIC-MTs is already planned for using a longitudinal evaluation design. Future studies should also explore how the RMIC-MTs scale scores relate to relevant patient-reported outcomes, thus establishing convergent and predictive validity. In addition, future studies should assess the discriminant validity of the RMIC-MTs, as it is likely that the care coordination process differs between clinics and care systems [56]. A fourth limitation is that the sample was chosen by convenience which may not be representative of the general CKD population and renal care providers. Although various healthcare professionals were included, the majority were nurses and nephrologists. In addition, only stage 4–5 CKD patients were included. Furthermore, the entire sample was obtained from a large renal care network within 19 countries. Hence, application of the findings to all CKD patients and renal care providers within the countries and beyond is limited. Fifth, the present study found that care providers were more critical about the clinics integrated care ability as compared with the overall patient integrated care experience. This raises the question whether the patient scores accurately reflect a very positive integrated care experience or a measurement variability limitation. To address this concern, we used an agree-to-disagree Likert scale, which is considered to generate the greatest variability in patient-based measures [57]. In addition, several scholars have shown that patients with a threatening chronic disease like CKD are reluctant to criticise their physician in terms of delivering fragmented care [58–60]. This theory requires further research regarding the discriminant validity of the RMIC-MT patient version between countries and dialysis clinics. Finally, the scales of the RMIC-MTs are meant to standardize the measurement of integrated care across different settings as patient groups. Accordingly, it is worth cross-validating the results of the present study in different patient groups and settings.
Implications for practice
The RMIC-MT’s are valuable instruments to assess the care coordination process and can accordingly be adopted for improving the integrated delivery of renal care. Both instruments can be easily administered to care providers and patients, taking respectively 10 to 20 minutes to complete. The RMIC-MT’s can be used as a pre/post intervention measure by policymakers and commissioners to assess the impact of an integrated care programme, and by health administrators as an ongoing performance assessment tool to focus on key aspects of integrated service delivery across teams and organisations. For example, tailored information on dialysis clinics performance gives insight into the clinic’s care coordination strengths and weaknesses through their patients and care providers eyes. Evidence has shown that this internal feedback appears to be an incentive for quality improvement [61,62]. In addition, the RMIC-MT’s can be used for benchmark purposes, by distinguishing ‘strong’ from ‘weak’ performing dialysis clinics on care coordination experience and ability. Hence, we see several potential applications of the RMIC-MT’s in research, performance assessment, continuing education, and evaluation.
Conclusion
In conclusion, this study provides evidence for the factor structure and psychometric properties of the RMIC patient and provider questionnaires as generic tools to measure integrated renal care. Both instruments serve as a useful tool for assessing integrated care through the eyes of CKD patients and renal care providers. The instruments are recommended in future applications testing test-retest reliability, convergent and predictive validity, and responsiveness.
Supporting information
S1 Table [docx]
Original RMIC-MT for care providers (44 items).S2 Table [docx]
Demographic characteristics of the CKD patients participating in pilot study (n = 53).S3 Table [docx]
Clarity and feasibility of the RMIC-MT patient version (n = 53).S4 Table [docx]
Summary measures of the items of the RMIC-MT patient and provider version.S5 Table [docx]
Descriptive statistics and internal consistency RMIC-MT patient version.S6 Table [docx]
Descriptive statistics and internal consistency RMIC-MT provider version.
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- Correction: Development of interval-valued fuzzy GRA with SERVPERF based on subjective and objective weights for evaluation of airline service quality: A case study of Korea low-cost carriers
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- The determinants of lung cancer after detecting a solitary pulmonary nodule are different in men and women, for both chest radiograph and CT
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- Target women: Equity in access to mHealth technology in a non-communicable disease care intervention in Kenya
- Correction: Attitudes to and experiences with body weight control and changes in body weight in relation to all-cause mortality in the general population
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- A systematic review and network meta-analysis of existing pharmacologic therapies in patients with idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss
- Effect of calcium glucoheptonate on proliferation and osteogenesis of osteoblast-like cells in vitro
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- Duration of symptoms in the quantification of upper limb disability and impairment for individuals with mild degenerative cervical myelopathy (DCM)
- Expression of genes in the skeletal muscle of individuals with cachexia/sarcopenia: A systematic review
- Correction: Alopecia areata patients show deficiency of FOXP3+CD39+ T regulatory cells and clonotypic restriction of Treg TCRβ-chain, which highlights the immunopathological aspect of the disease
- Alcohol, tobacco and cannabis use are associated with job loss at follow-up: Findings from the CONSTANCES cohort
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- Reasons behind stymied public hospital governance reform in China
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- The wing of the ToxR winged helix-turn-helix domain is required for DNA binding and activation of toxT and ompU
- Associations between sexual activity and weight status: Findings from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
- Knowledge and practices regarding toxoplasmosis in housewives: A cross sectional study in a northern Mexican city
- Citation gaming induced by bibliometric evaluation: A country-level comparative analysis
- Can we predict which species win when new habitat becomes available?
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- Research applications of primary biodiversity databases in the digital age
- The Edinburgh Postpartum Depression Scale: Stable structure but subscale of limited value to detect anxiety
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- Unexpected sawtooth artifact in beat-to-beat pulse transit time measured from patient monitor data
- Development of highly sensitive and low-cost DNA agarose gel electrophoresis detection systems, and evaluation of non-mutagenic and loading dye-type DNA-staining reagents
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- Macrophage phenotype and its relationship with renal function in human diabetic nephropathy
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- How does the content of nutrients in soil affect the health status of trees in city parks?
- Understanding the intricacy of canid social systems: Structure and temporal stability of red fox (Vulpes vulpes) groups
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- Understanding the effect of producers’ attitudes, perceived norms, and perceived behavioral control on intentions to use antimicrobials prudently on New York dairy farms
- Safety assessment of a novel C-type natriuretic peptide derivative and the mechanism of bone- and cartilage-specific toxicity
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- Ecological conditions experienced by offspring during pregnancy and early post-natal life determine mandible size in roe deer
- Calculation of the contribution rate of China’s hydraulic science and technology based on a feedforward neural network
- ViraMiner: Deep learning on raw DNA sequences for identifying viral genomes in human samples
- The absence of interleukin 10 affects the morphology, differentiation, granule content and the production of cryptidin-4 in Paneth cells in mice
- Relationship between Helicobacter pylori infection and obesity in Chinese adults: A systematic review with meta-analysis
- Moving model analysis on the transient pressure and slipstream caused by a metro train passing through a tunnel
- The importance of assigning responsibility during evaluation in order to increase student satisfaction from physical education classes: A structural equation model
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- Gene Cascade Finder: A tool for identification of gene cascades and its application in Caenorhabditis elegans
- Proteomics approach to identify serum biomarkers associated with the progression of diabetes in Korean patients with abdominal obesity
- Malaria vaccine candidates displayed on novel virus-like particles are immunogenic and induce transmission-blocking activity
- Transcriptome analysis of a nematode resistant and susceptible upland cotton line at two critical stages of Meloidogyne incognita infection and development
- Identification of variant HIV envelope proteins with enhanced affinities for precursors to anti-gp41 broadly neutralizing antibodies
- Distinguishing mild cognitive impairment from healthy aging and Alzheimer’s Disease: The contribution of the INECO Frontal Screening (IFS)
- Novel application of amino-acid buffered solution for neuroprotection against ischemia/reperfusion injury
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- Falls among community-dwelling older adults in Ethiopia; A preliminary cross-sectional study
- Retraction: Social success of perfumes
- The effect of ethyl alcohol on the severity of injuries in fatal pedestrian victims of traffic crashes
- Drought stress has transgenerational effects on soybean seed germination and seedling vigor
- Prevalence of benign osseous lesions of the spine and association with spinal pain in the general population in whole body MRI
- Age-related differences of inter-joint coordination in elderly during squat jumping
- Isolation of five Enterobacteriaceae species harbouring blaNDM-1 and mcr-1 plasmids from a single paediatric patient
- Diagnostic performance and image quality of iterative model-based reconstruction of coronary CT angiography using 100 kVp for heavily calcified coronary vessels
- CAC1 knockdown reverses drug resistance through the downregulation of P-gp and MRP-1 expression in colorectal cancer
- Getting your game on: Using virtual reality to improve real table tennis skills
- Microbiological contamination of young children’s hands in rural Bangladesh: Associations with child age and observed hand cleanliness as proxy
- Expansion of the agricultural frontier in the largest South American Dry Forest: Identifying priority conservation areas for snakes before everything is lost
- Utility of lung ultrasound in ANCA-associated vasculitis with lung involvement
- Aerial surveys cause large but ephemeral decreases in bear presence at salmon streams in Kodiak, Alaska
- Exposure to particle debris generated from passenger and truck tires induces different genotoxicity and inflammatory responses in the RAW 264.7 cell line
- Influence of the cultivation medium and pH on the pigmentation of Trichophyton rubrum
- Intra-arterial catheter-directed CT angiography for assessment of endovascular aortic aneurysm repair
- Association of antibiotic exposure with the mortality in metastatic colorectal cancer patients treated with bevacizumab-containing chemotherapy: A hospital-based retrospective cohort study
- The genetic alteration spectrum of the SWI/SNF complex: The oncogenic roles of BRD9 and ACTL6A
- Plasma chemistry in nesting leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) from Florida: Understanding the importance of sample hemolysis effects on blood analytes
- Myotendinous asymmetries derived from the prolonged practice of badminton in professional players
- Computational tools to detect signatures of mutational processes in DNA from tumours: A review and empirical comparison of performance
- Exposure to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) reduces contractile response of small airways from GSTCD-/- mice
- Generation of a protective murine monoclonal antibody against the stem of influenza hemagglutinins from group 1 viruses and identification of resistance mutations against it
- Comparative compositional and functional analyses of Bothrops moojeni specimens reveal several individual variations
- Radiation hardness of cadmium telluride solar cells in proton therapy beam mode
- Bourdieu, networks, and movements: Using the concepts of habitus, field and capital to understand a network analysis of gender differences in undergraduate physics
- A 32-channel parallel transmit system add-on for 7T MRI
- Comparison between Aptima Assays (Hologic) and the Allplex STI Essential Assay (Seegene) for the diagnosis of Sexually transmitted infections
- Knowledge gaps of STIs in Africa; Systematic review
- Correction: Bovine herpesvirus 1 can cross the intact zona pellucida of bovine oocytes after artificial infection
- Distribution of corneal spherical aberration in a Tanzanian population
- Correction: Determinants of physical activity: A path model based on an ecological model of active living
- Wild pollinator activity negatively related to honey bee colony densities in urban context
- Subclinical alterations in left ventricular structure and function according to obesity and metabolic health status
- The epidemiological signature of influenza B virus and its B/Victoria and B/Yamagata lineages in the 21st century
- Identification of bovine CpG SNPs as potential targets for epigenetic regulation via DNA methylation
- Nitric oxide regulates the expression of heme carrier protein-1 via hypoxia inducible factor-1α stabilization
- Development of highly efficient protocols for extraction and amplification of cytomegalovirus DNA from dried blood spots for detection and genotyping of polymorphic immunomodulatory genes
- Construction of pseudomolecule sequences of Brassica rapa ssp. pekinensis inbred line CT001 and analysis of spontaneous mutations derived via sexual propagation
- Effects of flavoring compounds used in electronic cigarette refill liquids on endothelial and vascular function
- Rural pipeline and willingness to work in rural areas: Mixed method study on students in midwifery and obstetric nursing in Mali
- Role of phospholipase A2 receptor 1 antibody level at diagnosis for long-term renal outcome in membranous nephropathy
- Prevalence of anemia in diabetic adult outpatients in Northeast Ethiopia
- Characterization of melanin and optimal conditions for pigment production by an endophytic fungus, Spissiomyces endophytica SDBR-CMU319
- Genetic variability and consequence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineage 3 in Kampala-Uganda
- Comparison of in vitro and computational experiments on the relation of inter-beat interval and duration of repolarization in a specific type of human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes
- Current and potential contributions of community pharmacy teams to self-harm and suicide prevention: A qualitative interview study
- Prediction of risk scores for colorectal cancer patients from the concentration of proteins involved in mitochondrial apoptotic pathway
- With or without U(K): A pre-Brexit network analysis of the EU ETS
- Graph-theoretical analysis for energy landscape reveals the organization of state transitions in the resting-state human cerebral cortex
- Task-uninformative visual stimuli improve auditory spatial discrimination in humans but not the ideal observer
- Residual stenosis after carotid artery stenting: Effect on periprocedural and long-term outcomes
- gapFinisher: A reliable gap filling pipeline for SSPACE-LongRead scaffolder output
- A plant biostimulant made from the marine brown algae Ascophyllum nodosum and chitosan reduce Fusarium head blight and mycotoxin contamination in wheat
- Monte-Carlo value analysis of High-Throughput Satellites: Value levers, tradeoffs, and implications for operators and investors
- Educational and health outcomes associated with bronchopulmonary dysplasia in 15-year-olds born preterm
- Loss of prostatic acid phosphatase and α-synuclein cause motor circuit degeneration without altering cerebellar patterning
- Neuropathy and neural plasticity in the subcutaneous white adipose depot
- Roles of differential expression of miR-543-5p in GH regulation in rat anterior pituitary cells and GH3 cells
- The enemy’s gaze: Immersive virtual environments enhance peace promoting attitudes and emotions in violent intergroup conflicts
- Protective effect of lactobacillus plantarum on alcoholic liver injury and regulating of keap-Nrf2-ARE signaling pathway in zebrafish larvae
- Koopman Mode Analysis of agent-based models of logistics processes
- Empirical mode decomposition based long short-term memory neural network forecasting model for the short-term metro passenger flow
- Male sexual dysfunction in obesity: The role of sex hormones and small fibre neuropathy
- Multi-agent reinforcement learning with approximate model learning for competitive games
- Identification of olfactory genes and functional analysis of BminCSP and BminOBP21 in Bactrocera minax
- The use of urinary fluoride excretion to facilitate monitoring fluoride intake: A systematic scoping review
- Development of a family caregiver needs-assessment scale for end-of-life care for senility at home (FADE)
- Epidemiology of pneumonia in the pre-pneumococcal conjugate vaccine era in children 2-59 months of age, in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 2015-2016
- H-EM: An algorithm for simultaneous cell diameter and intensity quantification in low-resolution imaging cytometry
- Public expenditure on Non-Communicable Diseases & Injuries in India: A budget-based analysis
- Doxorubicin induces trans-differentiation and MMP1 expression in cardiac fibroblasts via cell death-independent pathways
- uORF-Tools—Workflow for the determination of translation-regulatory upstream open reading frames
- Comparative analysis of postural control and vertical jump performance between three different measurement devices
- Hierarchical multi-view aggregation network for sensor-based human activity recognition
- Clavien–Dindo classification for grading complications after total pharyngolaryngectomy and free jejunum transfer
- Significantly different expression levels of microRNAs associated with vascular invasion in hepatocellular carcinoma and their prognostic significance after surgical resection
- Clinical correlates of workplace injury occurrence and recurrence in adults
- Medicine and the media: Medical experts’ problems and solutions while working with journalists
- Phylogenic classification and virulence genes profiles of uropathogenic E. coli and diarrhegenic E. coli strains isolated from community acquired infections
- Genetic relatedness in carbapenem-resistant isolates from clinical specimens in Ghana using ERIC-PCR technique
- Forest resilience under global environmental change: Do we have the information we need? A systematic review
- Improving the production of podophyllotoxin in hairy roots of Hyptis suaveolens induced from regenerated plantlets
- Controls on planktonic foraminifera apparent calcification depths for the northern equatorial Indian Ocean
- Notch and Delta are required for survival of the germline stem cell lineage in testes of Drosophila melanogaster
- Children with HIV: A scoping review of auditory processing skills
- Correction: Two distinct actin waves correlated with turns-and-runs of crawling microglia
- Expression of Concern: Neurotoxicity Induced by Bupivacaine via T-Type Calcium Channels in SH-SY5Y Cells
- Sex-dependent and -independent transcriptional changes during haploid phase gametogenesis in the sugar kelp Saccharina latissima
- Vehicle modeling for the analysis of the response of detectors based on inductive loops
- New Mycobacteroides abscessus subsp. massiliense strains with recombinant hsp65 gene laterally transferred from Mycobacteroides abscessus subsp. abscessus: Potential for misidentification of M. abscessus strains with the hsp65-based method
- A prognostic Bayesian network that makes personalized predictions of poor prognostic outcome post resection of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
- Impact of care provider network characteristics on patient outcomes: Usage of social network analysis and a multi-scale community detection
- Valid group comparisons can be made with the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9): A measurement invariance study across groups by demographic characteristics
- Comparison of risk models for mortality and cardiovascular events between machine learning and conventional logistic regression analysis
- Upgraded molecular models of the human KCNQ1 potassium channel
- Mental health and quality of life outcomes in family members of patients with chronic critical illness admitted to the intensive care units of two Brazilian hospitals serving the extremes of the socioeconomic spectrum
- Correction: Secretome profiling of PC3/nKR cells, a novel highly migrating prostate cancer subline derived from PC3 cells
- The extraordinary osteology and functional morphology of the limbs in Palorchestidae, a family of strange extinct marsupial giants
- Primary hyperhidrosis prevalence and characteristics among medical students in Rio de Janeiro
- Implementation of home blood pressure monitoring among French GPs: A long and winding road
- In vitro and molecular chemosensitivity in human cholangiocarcinoma tissues
- Saiga horn user characteristics, motivations, and purchasing behaviour in Singapore
- The health and cost burden of antibiotic resistant and susceptible Escherichia coli bacteraemia in the English hospital setting: A national retrospective cohort study
- Retraction: Comprehensive Comparison of Three Different Immunosuppressive Regimens for Liver Transplant Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Steroid-Free Immunosuppression, Induction Immunosuppression and Standard Immunosuppression
- Can acute suicidality be predicted by Instagram data? Results from qualitative and quantitative language analyses
- Computational and experimental analysis of the glycophosphatidylinositol-anchored proteome of the human parasitic nematode Brugia malayi
- Antibacterial activity of silver nanoparticles of different particle size against Vibrio Natriegens
- Genetic variations associated with response to dutasteride in the treatment of male subjects with androgenetic alopecia
- To eat or not to eat: Reward delay impulsivity in children with loss of control eating, attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder, a double diagnosis, and healthy children
- Factors associated with newborn care knowledge and practices in the upper Himalayas
- Correction: A more physiological approach to lipid metabolism alterations in cancer: CRC-like organoids assessment
- Correlates of concurrent partnerships and patterns of condom use among men who have sex with men and transgender women in Peru
- Ocular and systemic risk factors associated with recurrent disc hemorrhage in primary open-angle glaucoma
- Development of a denoising convolutional neural network-based algorithm for metal artifact reduction in digital tomosynthesis for arthroplasty: A phantom study
- Low-level sensory processes play a more crucial role than high-level cognitive ones in the size-weight illusion
- The prevalence of asthma and allergic rhinitis in Nigeria: A nationwide survey among children, adolescents and adults
- Retraction: Human Cystathionine-β-Synthase Phosphorylation on Serine227 Modulates Hydrogen Sulfide Production in Human Urothelium
- Which clinical and biochemical predictors should be used to screen for diabetes in patients with serious mental illness receiving antipsychotic medication? A large observational study
- Characteristics of diabetic macular edema patients refractory to anti-VEGF treatments and a dexamethasone implant
- Correction: Effects of dietary n-6: n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid ratios on meat quality, carcass characteristics, tissue fatty acid profiles, and expression of lipogenic genes in growing goats
- Speckle tracking derived reference values of myocardial deformation and impact of cardiovascular risk factors – Results from the population-based STAAB cohort study
- Impact of pterygium on the ocular surface and meibomian glands
- Lack of association between hypothyroxinemia of prematurity and transient thyroid abnormalities with adverse long term neurodevelopmental outcome in very low birth weight infants
- Transcriptome divergence during leaf development in two contrasting switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) cultivars
- Study on Dalfampridine in the treatment of Multiple Sclerosis Mobility Disability: A meta-analysis
- Circulating progenitor cells and the expression of Cxcl12, Cxcr4 and angiopoietin-like 4 during wound healing in the murine ear
- EUSKOR: End-to-end coreference resolution system for Basque
- Inactivating pathogenic bacteria in greywater by biosynthesized Cu/Zn nanoparticles from secondary metabolite of Aspergillus iizukae; optimization, mechanism and techno economic analysis
- Exopolysaccharide producing rhizobacteria and their impact on growth and drought tolerance of wheat grown under rainfed conditions
- Structural equation modeling for hypertension and type 2 diabetes based on multiple SNPs and multiple phenotypes
- Correction: Association between ultraviolet radiation exposure dose and cataract in Han people living in China and Taiwan: A cross-sectional study
- Short-term exercise training improves cardiac function associated to a better antioxidant response and lower type 3 iodothyronine deiodinase activity after myocardial infarction
- Unexpected low genetic variation in the South American hystricognath rodent Lagostomus maximus (Rodentia: Chinchillidae)
- PRC2 activates interferon-stimulated genes indirectly by repressing miRNAs in glioblastoma
- Surgical resection is sufficient for incidentally discovered solitary pulmonary nodule caused by nontuberculous mycobacteria in asymptomatic patients
- “I do all I can but I still fail them”: Health system barriers to providing Option B+ to pregnant and lactating women in Malawi
- Impact of major illnesses and geographic regions on do-not-resuscitate rate and its potential cost savings in Taiwan
- Implementation of intermittent theta burst stimulation compared to conventional repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in patients with treatment resistant depression: A cost analysis
- Genome-wide analysis of DNA methylation profile identifies differentially methylated loci associated with human intervertebral disc degeneration
- Correction: Artificial neural networks reveal individual differences in metacognitive monitoring of memory
- Combining fish and environmental PCR for diagnostics of diseased laboratory zebrafish in recirculating systems
- Reading skill modulates the effect of parafoveal distractors on foveal lexical decision in deaf students
- Association between the posterior part of the circle of Willis and the vertebral artery hypoplasia
- Exposure to marital conflict: Gender differences in internalizing and externalizing problems among children
- Ethanol locks for the prevention of catheter-related infection in patients with central venous catheter: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
- The effect of age and perturbation time on online control during rapid pointing
- Oilseed rape (Brassica napus) resistance to growth of Leptosphaeria maculans in leaves of young plants contributes to quantitative resistance in stems of adult plants
- Lymphocyte proliferation induced by high-affinity peptides for HLA-B*51:01 in Behçet’s uveitis
- Sensitization of avian pathogenic Escherichia coli to amoxicillin in vitro and in vivo in the presence of surfactin
- Genomic characterization of the complete terpene synthase gene family from Cannabis sativa
- Inhibition of gap junctional intercellular communication by an anti-migraine agent, flunarizine
- Levels of serum eosinophil cationic protein are associated with hookworm infection and intensity in endemic communities in Ghana
- Plant growth promoting rhizobacterium Stenotrophomonas maltophilia BJ01 augments endurance against N2 starvation by modulating physiology and biochemical activities of Arachis hypogea
- Hierarchical integrated and segregated processing in the functional brain default mode network within attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
- Rising co-payments coincide with unwanted effects on continuity of healthcare for patients with schizophrenia in the Netherlands
- Analysis of Zobellella denitrificans ZD1 draft genome: Genes and gene clusters responsible for high polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) production from glycerol under saline conditions and its CRISPR-Cas system
- False-negative errors in next-generation sequencing contribute substantially to inconsistency of mutation databases
- Identification of potassium phosphite responsive miRNAs and their targets in potato
- Quantification of bell-shaped size selectivity in shrimp trawl fisheries using square mesh panels and a sorting cone after a Nordmøre grid
- Deactivation of somatosensory and visual cortices during vestibular stimulation is associated with older age and poorer balance
- Combined immunization with attenuated live influenza vaccine and chimeric pneumococcal recombinant protein improves the outcome of virus-bacterial infection in mice
- Flooding performance evaluation of alkyl aryl sulfonate in various alkaline environments
- An artificial intelligent diagnostic system on mobile Android terminals for cholelithiasis by lightweight convolutional neural network
- Enhanced detection of prion infectivity from blood by preanalytical enrichment with peptoid-conjugated beads
- COI metabarcoding primer choice affects richness and recovery of indicator taxa in freshwater systems
- Retraction: APRIL Induces Tumorigenesis and Metastasis of Colorectal Cancer Cells via Activation of the PI3K/Akt Pathway
- The intake pattern and feed preference of layer hens selected for high or low feed conversion ratio
- Individualized pattern recognition for detecting mind wandering from EEG during live lectures
- Ontogenetic expression of thyroid hormone signaling genes: An in vitro and in vivo species comparison
- Post-activation potentiation effect of eccentric overload and traditional weightlifting exercise on jumping and sprinting performance in male athletes
- Effectiveness of different central venous catheter fixation suture techniques: An in vitro crossover study
- Quantitative detection of ALK fusion breakpoints in plasma cell-free DNA from patients with non-small cell lung cancer using PCR-based target sequencing with a tiling primer set and two-step mapping/alignment
- Nuclei deformation reveals pressure distributions in 3D cell clusters
- Strategies for increasing diagnostic yield of community-onset bacteraemia within the emergency department: A retrospective study
- Rapid evolution of Mexican H7N3 highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses in poultry
- Certified service dogs – A cost-effectiveness analysis appraisal
- Endothelial dysfunction and low-grade inflammation in the transition to renal replacement therapy
- Assessing the impact of a research funder’s recommendation to consider core outcome sets
- Validity of six consumer-level activity monitors for measuring steps in patients with chronic heart failure
- Detection of deceptive motions in rugby from visual motion cues
- The impact of antenatal care on neonatal mortality in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis
- Epidemiological investigation and management of bloody diarrhea among children in India
- Irisin promotes C2C12 myoblast proliferation via ERK-dependent CCL7 upregulation
- Bacteria isolated from Bengal cat (Felis catus × Prionailurus bengalensis) anal sac secretions produce volatile compounds potentially associated with animal signaling
- Petri net–based model of the human DNA base excision repair pathway
- Complexation and conformation of lead ion with poly-γ-glutamic acid in soluble state
- The effects of sympathetic activity induced by ice water on blood flow and brachial artery flow-mediated dilatation response in healthy volunteers
- The Youth-Physical Activity Towards Health (Y-PATH) intervention: Results of a 24 month cluster randomised controlled trial
- The COPD multi-dimensional phenotype: A new classification from the STORICO Italian observational study
- Morphological identification of Amphitetranychus species (Acari: Tetranychidae) with crossbreeding, esterase zymograms and DNA barcode data
- Maintaining hope after a disabling stroke: A longitudinal qualitative study of patients’ experiences, views, information needs and approaches towards making treatment decisions
- Cultural differences in the use of acoustic cues for musical emotion experience
- Effects of a rifampicin pre-treatment on linezolid pharmacokinetics
- High prevalence of multidrug resistant Enterobacteriaceae among residents of long term care facilities in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- Infection/inflammation-associated preterm delivery within 14 days of presentation with symptoms of preterm labour: A multivariate predictive model
- Prognostic value of preoperative hydronephrosis in patients with bladder cancer undergoing radical cystectomy: A meta-analysis
- Correction: Early life predictors of midlife allostatic load: A prospective cohort study
- PCR-free whole exome sequencing: Cost-effective and efficient in detecting rare mutations
- Epstein-Barr virus genome packaging factors accumulate in BMRF1-cores within viral replication compartments
- Symbiotic incompatibility between soybean and Bradyrhizobium arises from one amino acid determinant in soybean Rj2 protein
- Does anticoagulation needed for distally located incidental pulmonary thromboembolism in patients with active cancer?
- Control of human testis-specific gene expression
- Speaking up culture of medical students within an academic teaching hospital: Need of faculty working in patient safety
- Appraisal on the wound healing potential of Melaleuca alternifolia and Rosmarinus officinalis L. essential oil-loaded chitosan topical preparations
- Understanding parental perspectives on outcomes following paediatric encephalitis: A qualitative study
- Results of scoping review do not support mild traumatic brain injury being associated with a high incidence of chronic cognitive impairment: Commentary on McInnes et al. 2017
- Native seed, soil and atmosphere respond to boreal forest topsoil (LFH) storage
- Development of a quantitative polymerase chain reaction assay and environmental DNA sampling methods for Giant Gartersnake (Thamnophis gigas)
- Genetic diversity and population structure of four Chinese rabbit breeds
- Knowledge, attitude and behaviors towards patients with mental illness: Results from a national Lebanese study
- Correction: An impact evaluation of two rounds of mass drug administration on the prevalence of active trachoma: A clustered cross sectional survey
- Comparative prognostic accuracy of sepsis scores for hospital mortality in adults with suspected infection in non-ICU and ICU at an academic public hospital
- Graph convolutional network approach applied to predict hourly bike-sharing demands considering spatial, temporal, and global effects
- Impact of traffic variability on geographic accessibility to 24/7 emergency healthcare for the urban poor: A GIS study in Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Feeling the heat: Elevated temperature affects male display activity of a lekking grassland bird
- Constructing a comprehensive disaster resilience index: The case of Italy
- Intraocular pressure according to different types of tonometry (non-contact and Goldmann applanation) in patients with different degrees of bilateral tearing
- Prevalent vertebral fracture is dominantly associated with spinal microstructural deterioration rather than bone mineral density in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus
- Silent volumetric multi-contrast 7 Tesla MRI of ocular tumors using Zero Echo Time imaging
- Nonverbal synchrony in virtual reality
- Do speed cameras reduce road traffic collisions?
- A zero-shot learning approach to the development of brain-computer interfaces for image retrieval
- Use of non-HIV medication among people living with HIV and receiving antiretroviral treatment in Côte d’Ivoire, West Africa: A cross-sectional study
- DNA barcoding of southern African crustaceans reveals a mix of invasive species and potential cryptic diversity
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- Correction: The mean cell volume difference (dMCV) reflects serum hypertonicity in diabetic dogs
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- Correction: Effects of affective priming through music on the use of emotion words
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- Correction: Unraveling the genetic complexity underlying sorghum response to water availability
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- Correction: Effects of Lactobacillus plantarum 15-1 and fructooligosaccharides on the response of broilers to pathogenic Escherichia coli O78 challenge
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- Retraction: Modulation of the Pentose Phosphate Pathway Induces Endodermal Differentiation in Embryonic Stem Cells
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- Retraction: Analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis-Specific CD8 T-Cells in Patients with Active Tuberculosis and in Individuals with Latent Infection
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- Correction: A controlled-release oral opioid supports S. aureus survival in injection drug preparation equipment and may increase bacteremia and endocarditis risk
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- Correction: Permissivity of Primary Human Hepatocytes and Different Hepatoma Cell Lines to Cell Culture Adapted Hepatitis C Virus
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- Correction: In vitro larval rearing protocol for the stingless bee species Melipona scutellaris for toxicological studies
- Correction: Morphological and molecular identification of the dioecious “African species Volvox rousseletii (Chlorophyceae) in the water column of a Japanese lake based on field-collected and cultured materials
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- Differences in the impedance of cochlear implant devices within 24 hours of their implantation
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- Expression of Concern: miRNA 17 Family Regulates Cisplatin-Resistant and Metastasis by Targeting TGFbetaR2 in NSCLC
- Group leaders establish cooperative norms that persist in subsequent interactions
- Addis Ababa population-based pattern of cancer therapy, Ethiopia
- Agreement between the Cochrane risk of bias tool and Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro) scale: A meta-epidemiological study of randomized controlled trials of physical therapy interventions
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- Analgesic drug use in elderly persons: A population-based study in Southern Italy
- RCER: Reliable Cluster-based Energy-aware Routing protocol for heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks
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- A non-parametric significance test to compare corpora
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- Different levels of statistical learning - Hidden potentials of sequence learning tasks
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- High levels of fasting glucose and glycosylated hemoglobin values are associated with hyperfiltration in a Spanish prediabetes cohort. The PREDAPS Study
- Genetically distinct Group B Streptococcus strains induce varying macrophage cytokine responses
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- National trends in inpatient endometriosis admissions: Patients, procedures and outcomes, 2006−2015
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- Mice deficient in NKLAM have attenuated inflammatory cytokine production in a Sendai virus pneumonia model
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- Machine learning discovery of longitudinal patterns of depression and suicidal ideation
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- A matter of taste: Spatial and ontogenetic variations on the trophic ecology of the tiger shark at the Galapagos Marine Reserve
- Retraction: Adaptive double threshold energy detection based on Markov model for cognitive radio
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