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Organizational readiness to change assessment (ORCA): Development of an instrument based on the Promoting Action on Research in Health Services (PARIHS) framework

Christian D Helfrich1,2*, Yu-Fang Li3,1, Nancy D Sharp1,2 and Anne E Sales4

Author Affiliations

1 Northwest HSR&D Center of Excellence, VA Puget Sound Healthcare System, Seattle, Washington, USA

2 Department of Health Services, University of Washington School of Public Health, Seattle, Washington, USA

3 Department of Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems, University of Washington, School of Nursing, Seattle, Washington, USA

4 Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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Implementation Science 2009, 4:38 doi:10.1186/1748-5908-4-38

Published: 14 July 2009

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Annotated copy of the Organizational Readiness to Change Assessment (ORCA). This is an annotated copy of the Organizational Readiness to Change Assessment (ORCA).

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Additional file 2:

Tables of missing values. This file contains two tables, one showing missing values by observation, and the other showing missing values by item.

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Additional file 3:

Results of item-level factor analyses for individual subscales. This file contains data tables for the factor analysis of the constituent items for each subscale, which we did prior to factor analyzing the aggregated subscales.

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