2019•PubMedOpen access

Designing and validating a measuring tool for the factors affecting the distribution of hospitals' intensive care beds in Iran.

Nahid Farrokhyar, Khalil Alimohammadzadeh, Ali Maher, Seyed Mojtaba Hosseini, Mohammadkarim Bahadori

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In this study, a valid tool was designed to identify the factors affecting the distribution of hospitals' intensive care beds. This tool consists of 6 dimensions: demographic, geographic, economic, sociopolitical, organizational, and constructional.

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Key concepts: Cronbach's alpha, Content validity, Intensive care, Face validity, Reliability (semiconductor), Validity, Psychology, Nursing