Development and validation of a short version of the Assessment of Chronic Illness Care (ACIC) in Dutch Disease Management Programs

Table 4 Scale characteristics and inter-correlations of the shortened subscales (n = 218)

	items short version	Cron-bach's alpha	original full scale	scale mean (sd)	inter-item correlations range	1	2	3	4	5	6
1. Organization of the healthcare delivery system	1,2,3	0.86	0.93**	21.71 (5.72)	.60-.70	-
2. Community linkages	7,8,9	0.74	1.00**	19.66 (4.99)	.46-.56	0.55**	-
3. Self-management support	10,11,12	0.79	0.97**	18.61 (6.47)	.51-.65	0.50**	0.49**	-
4. Decision support	14,16,17	0.73	0.95**	20.57 (5.20)	.48-.50	0.50**	0.55**	0.61**	-
5. Delivery system design	21,22,23	0.72	0.88**	23.47 (4.96)	.42-.54	0.53**	0.52**	0.61**	0.62**	-
6. Clinical information systems	26,27,28	0.70	0.87**	18.35 (5.64)	.32-.55	0.50**	0.44**	0.67**	0.56**	0.64**	-
7. Integration of chronic care components	29,33,34	0.79	0.91**	17.84 (5.83)	.48-.68	0.51**	0.43**	0.67**	0.70**	0.62**	0.68**

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