Instrument:

The Prevention and Control of Antimicrobial resistance (PACAR) scale

Implementation
outcome:

Penetration

Instrument summary:

16-item survey measuring the implementation and spread of Antimicrobial resistance prevention and control efforts

Level of analysis:

Organisation

Country of application:

USA

Psychometric quality
(ConPsyCL):

6 / 22

Global reliability
score (COSMIN):

Poor

Global validity
score (COSMIN):

Fair

Responsiveness
score (COSMIN):

Not assessed

Usability score:

Good

16 items

Reference:

Flanagan M, Ramanujam R, Sutherland J, Vaughn T, Diekema D, Doebbeling BN.

Development and validation of measures to assess prevention and control of AMR in hospitals. Med Care.

Med Care. 2007;45(6):537–44.

Psychometric quality
(ConPsyCL):

ConPsyCL score:

6 / 22

Reliability (Max 5pts)

Internal consistency (Max 3pts)

0 / 1Item internal consistency
/ Item total correlation

0 / 2Alpha

 

Test-retest or inter-rater (Max 2pts)

0 / 1 Item level

0 / 1 Factor level

 

Validity (Max 5pts)

1 / 1 Content validity

1 / 1 Face validity

0 / 1 Convergent validity

0 / 1 Discriminant validity

0 / 1 Discriminative validity

 

Factor Analysis (Max 12pts)

0 / 1 Adequacy measures

0 / 1 Kaiser criterion

1 / 1 Variance explained
/ Parallel analysis

1 / 1 Main loadings

0 / 4 EFA goodness of fit

2 / 4 CFA Goodness of fit

 

0 / -2 Penalty

Methodological quality:
(COSMIN)

Reliability

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Internal consistency

Poor

Reliability

Not assessed

Measurement error

Not assessed

Global reliability score

Poor

Validity

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Content validity

Excellent

Structural validity

Fair

Hypotheses testing

Not assessed

Cross-cultural validity

Not assessed

Criterion validity

Good

Global validity score

Fair

Responsiveness

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Responsiveness

Not assessed