Clinical Information System Questionnaire

CISQ-ER

The Clinical Information System Questionnaire - Emergency Room (CISQ-ER) is under development.  Joanne Bouma, Brian Gugerty and Powhatan Wooldridge are developing the CISQ-ER to evaluate staff satisfaction with implementation of an Emergency Room Clinical Information System are developing this tool.  The grounded theory used to develop the CISQ-36 that resulted at this point has resulted in six sub-dimensions - Training; Ownership; Practice; Technical Difficulties; Teamwork and General Satisfaction- serve as the framework for CISQ-ER development.  We are taking the items from the CISQ-36 that are applicable to the ER and modifying the wording to reflect this different care environment.  In a few cases CISQ-36 items are not appropriate for inclusion in the CISQ-ER and in several cases new items are being created for testing. 

Previous administrations of the CISQ family of tools were post implementation of a CIS.  The CISQ-ER is being developed with two forms: the CISQ-ER Pre and the CISQ-ER Post.  The CISQ-ER Pre will be administered before the staff are thoroughly trained on the Emergency Room Clinical Information System and before the systems is implemented.  The CISQ-ER Post will be administered after implementation of the Emergency Room Clinical Information System.  Care is being taken to allow comparison of the corresponding pre and post items so that equivalency of elicited concepts is maintained to the greatest extent possible.  An example of a CISQ-ER Pre item is "The Emergency Room Clinical Information System will free me up to spend more time on patient care."  An example a CISQ-ER Post item is "The Emergency Room Clinical Information System frees me up to spend more time on patient care."  This will allow computation of change scores on an item, sub-dimension and total scale basis for the CISQ-ER upon the very first administration post implementation. 

The CISQ-ER will be administered in conjunction with four Emergency Room CIS implementations in the Calgary, Alberta, Canada region in 2001 and 2002.

If you would like to use this or one of the other CISQ Measurement Instruments, please go to the CISQ Measurement Instrument Request Form page.

Last updated: June 26, 2002