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Dieleman, S. L., Farris, K. B., Feeny, D., Johnson, J. A., Tsuyuki, R. T., and Brilliant, S. (2004). Primary health care teams: Team members' perceptions of the collaborative process. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 18(1), 75-­78.

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This version of the  Modified Collaboration and Satisfaction About Care Decisions tool is a 26 item tool on a 7 point scale used to assess quality of interaction in making care decisions and satisfaction with the decision making process in the health setting. It has two subscales: collaboration and satisfaction (Dieleman et al., 1994).

Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy

22 professionals in 4 disciplines

Nurse-­‐physician or allied health professional collaboration associated with making specific patient care decisions

Internal Consistency Cronbach’s α  =.89 at Time 1.

karen-­‐farris@uiowa.edu

Dechairo-­Marino, A. E., Jordan-­Marsh, M., Traiger, G., and Saulo, M. (2001). Nurse/physician collaboration: Action research and the lessons learned. The Journal of Nursing Administration, 31(5), 223-­232.

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The Modified Collaboration and Satisfaction About Care Decisions (CSACD-N) tool has 7 items with a 7-point scale and is used to assess collaboration in making specific patient care decisions and satisfaction with the decision making. The tool measures 6 attributes of collaboration and 1 global measure of amount of collaboration (Dechairo et al., 2001)

Nursing

122 nurses

Internal consistency Cronbach's α =.94

dechairomarino@earthlink.net

Baggs, J. G. (1994). Development of an instrument to measure collaboration and satisfaction about care decisions. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 20(1), 176-­182.

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The  Modified Collaboration and Satisfaction About Care Decisions tool is a 9 item tool on a 7 point scale used to assess quality of interaction in making care decisions and satisfaction with the decision making process in the health setting. It has two subscales: collaboration and satisfaction (Baggs, 1994).

Phase 1 and 2: Medicine and Nursing

58 staff from 2 professions

Nurse-­‐physician or allied health professional collaboration associated with making specific patient care decisions

Internal Consistency Cronbach’s α  

6 critical-attribute collaboration items=.93.

Correlation between two satisfaction items r=.64.

Correlation with global collaboration items r=.78 vs r=.50

Criterion validity: correlation between global collaboration total of 6 critical attribute items r=.87.

Correlation between collaboration and satisfaction with decision-making process r=.69.

Correlation between collaboration and satisfaction with decision r=.50.

Factor analysis loadings for 6 items ranged from .82 to .93.

Judith Gedney Baggs, PhD, RN, FAAN

Elizabeth N. Gray Distinguished Professor

Special Assistant to the Dean for Research and Scholarship

Oregon Health & Science University, School of Nursing, SN-4S

3455 SW US Veterans Hospital Road

Portland, OR 97239

baggsj@ohsu.edu