Phillips, Leigh Alison. Construct validation of the doctor expertise scale in a primary care setting. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3416XBM
DescriptionThe construct of Doctor Expertise is introduced and an initial measure of the construct is presented along with its construct validation in the context of a primary care medical setting. The Doctor Expertise Scale is theorized to measure important, predictive relationships between Doctor Expertise, or the general ability of a doctor to elicit a patient's mental model of his/her presenting problem and to communicate differences between the patient's model and the medical model, and health outcomes, such as patient treatment adherence and problem resolution. Content-related, criterion-related, and construct-related validity evidence is demonstrated and further steps for scale validation are presented.