Figure 1

Graphical display of the mean rating among 2 full-time study staff when evaluating the importance of certain preparatory, recruitment, and data collection strategies to the success of the survey participation and completion across 31 hospitals and 72 nursing homes. Rating was performed on a scale of 1 to 4, with 1 being unimportant, 2 being somewhat important, 3 being very important, and 4 being critical to success. Intra-rater reliability was significant with 64% of ratings being identical and 96% being either identical or in an adjacent rating level. DPH refers to the Department of Public Health. IRB refers to Institutional Review Board.