Can compassionate healthcare be measured? The Schwartz Center Compassionate Care Scale™

Assess psychometric characteristics of an instrument to measure patient ratings of treating physicians' compassionate care in a recent hospitalization.We used Cronbach's alpha to examine scale reliability, exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis to examine scale structure of two sets of items on compassionate care. We used Mokken analysis to determine if items in each set belonged to a unidimensional scale.Results indicated that both sets...