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. 2005 Dec;40(6 Pt 2):2078–2095. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2005.00471.x

Table 2.

Patient-Level Factor Analysis

Factor

MDCom PainCont Discharge NursCom PhysCom ComMeds
Correlation with other factors
MDCom 1.00 0.48 0.39 0.55 0.53 0.49
PainCont 0.48 1.00 0.29 0.62 0.63 0.48
Discharge 0.39 0.29 1.00 0.36 0.53 0.46
NursCom 0.55 0.62 0.36 1.00 0.74 0.55
PhysCom 0.53 0.63 0.53 0.74 1.00 0.58
ComMeds 0.49 0.48 0.46 0.55 0.58 1.00
Variance explained eliminating other factors 1.71 0.89 1.07 0.84 0.97 1.46 Consensus Factor
Item Standardized Regression Coefficients
MD respect (Q11) 0.83 0.03 −0.03 0.01 −0.01 −0.05
MD listen (Q12) 0.88 0.01 −0.02 0.01 −0.02 −0.01
MD explanations (Q13) 0.80 −0.02 0.01 −0.01 0.01 0.04
MD enough time (Q14) 0.72 −0.01 0.02 0.01 0.09 0.00
Involved in decisions (Q25) 0.30 0.06 0.09 0.07 0.18 0.16
Response to pain (Q31) −0.02 0.65 0.01 0.11 0.12 0.02
Pain controlled (Q32) 0.02 0.75 0.01 −0.05 0.07 0.00 MD services
Pain help (Q33) 0.04 0.74 0.03 0.05 0.06 0.02
Tests without pain (Q35) 0.09 0.20 0.00 0.00 0.18 0.05
Purpose of medicines (Q38) 0.06 −0.06 0.01 0.04 0.03 0.75
Delays in admission (Q43) 0.10 0.07 0.05 −0.04 0.17 −0.02
Discharge activity information (nQ47) 0.01 −0.01 0.69 −0.03 −0.01 −0.06
Help after discharge (nQ48) 0.00 0.03 0.47 0.01 0.04 0.04
Discharge symptoms information (nQ49) 0.00 −0.03 0.70 0.00 −0.02 −0.01
Discharge medicine information (nQ51) −0.02 0.04 0.42 −0.01 0.00 0.08
Nurse respect (Q4) −0.03 0.05 −0.02 0.75 0.06 −0.01
Nurse listen (Q5) 0.01 0.03 −0.01 0.78 0.05 0.01
Nurse explanations (Q6) 0.10 −0.06 0.03 0.66 0.06 0.07
Nurse enough time (Q7) 0.04 0.00 0.01 0.56 0.24 −0.01
Nurse help (Q9) −0.04 0.12 −0.02 0.42 0.31 0.00
Help bathing (Q20) −0.02 −0.06 0.04 0.06 0.74 −0.02 RN services
Bathroom help (Q22) −0.05 0.00 0.03 0.11 0.69 −0.01
Privacy (Q24) 0.10 0.09 0.01 0.00 0.44 0.08
Help visitors (Q27) 0.12 0.12 0.01 0.15 0.35 0.02
Names of medicines (Q37) 0.04 −0.04 0.02 0.02 0.02 0.73
Questions about other medicines (Q39) −0.05 0.04 −0.03 −0.01 −0.01 0.76
Questions about medicine allergies (Q40) −0.06 0.05 −0.01 −0.02 0.00 0.72
Explain medicine side effects (Q41) 0.03 0.01 0.10 0.01 0.08 0.58
Room temperature (Q16) 0.04 0.07 −0.07 −0.07 0.48 0.00
Room clean (Q17) −0.02 −0.03 −0.04 0.00 0.61 0.05 Environment
Room quiet (Q18) 0.03 0.01 −0.06 −0.05 0.54 0.01
Introductions (Q28) 0.10 0.08 0.01 0.12 0.16 0.23
Living Will (Q44) −0.01 0.06 0.19 0.02 −0.09 0.03

Boldface entries are factor loadings for the patient-level composites items. Items are ordered by the factors in the consensus hospital-level factor analysis.