Preliminary Development of the Physician Documentation Quality Instrument

Table 4

Factor Loadings of Four-factor Solution for Discharge Summary (n = 67; Overall Internal Consistency Reliability: 0.88)

	Factor I	Factor II	Factor III	Factor IV
Item	Well-formed	Comprehensible	Accurate	Compact
Clear	0.654
Up-to-date			0.769
Complete			0.726
Legible		0.625
Accurate			0.696
Thorough			0.591
Uncluttered	0.450
Coherent		0.745
Useful		0.566
Correct		0.773
Brief				0.778
Current			0.752
Organized	0.710
Relevant			0.489
Comprehensible		0.733
Concise				0.876
Structured	0.805
Nonredundant	0.771
Succinct				0.872
Synthesized	0.612
Focused				0.662
Consistent		0.618
Internal consistency reliability estimate (alpha)	0.84	0.85	0.76	0.83
Percent variance explained after Varimax rotation	18%	17%	16%	15%

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