Early Determinants of Required Nursing Care Hours in the Acute Care Setting

This study was conducted to evaluate how patients' requirements for nursing care are related to physician and nurse practice and hospital and patient characteristics. Data available in the first 24 hours of hospitalization were collected for more than 5,000 patients admitted to a 600-bed tertia...

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Published in:Inquiry (Chicago) 1992-04, Vol.29 (1), p.99-104
Main Author: Bostrom, Janet
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Clinical nursing research
Comorbidity
Diagnosis related groups
Diseases
DRGs
Efficiency
Female
Health Resources
Health Services Research
Hospital admissions
Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over
Hospitalization
Hospitals
Hospitals - classification
Hospitals - statistics & numerical data
Humans
Intensive care units
Length of Stay - statistics & numerical data
Male
Medical practice
Nurses
Nursing Assessment - standards
Nursing Assessment - statistics & numerical data
Nursing care
Nursing Service, Hospital - standards
Nursing Service, Hospital - statistics & numerical data
Nursing Service, Hospital - utilization
Patients - classification
Physicians
Practice Patterns, Physicians' - standards
Primary nursing care
Regression Analysis
Research Notes and Data Trends
Studies
United States
Variation
Workload
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Summary:This study was conducted to evaluate how patients' requirements for nursing care are related to physician and nurse practice and hospital and patient characteristics. Data available in the first 24 hours of hospitalization were collected for more than 5,000 patients admitted to a 600-bed tertiary care hospital and discharged in one of 20 DRGs. Average daily nursing care hours and total nursing care hours were best predicted by the amounts of specific types of nursing care required on the first day of hospitalization.
ISSN:0046-9580
1945-7243