Reviewing deaths in British and US hospitals: a study of two scales for assessing preventability

Conclusions
The correspondence is high between a Likert and a continuous scale, although the low reliability of both would suggest careful measurement design would be needed to use either scale. Few to no cases are above the threshold when using a balance of probability approach to determining a preventable death, and in any case, there is little evidence supporting anything more than an ordinal correspondence between these reviewer estimates of probability and the true probability. Thus, it would be more defensible to use them as an ordinal measure of the quality of care received by patients who died in the hospital.

Source: Quality and Safety in Health Care - April 18, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Manaseki-Holland, S., Lilford, R. J., Bishop, J. R. B., Girling, A. J., Chen, Y.-F., Chilton, P. J., Hofer, T. P., The UK Case Note Review Group, Alner, Bleasdale, Bosanko, Brind, Byatt, Carmalt, Carr, Dharmarajah, Dunstan, Edmunds, Hayat, Heatlie, Ishaq, Tags: Open access Original research Source Type: research