title: Nursing care requirements and resource consumption in home health care.
abstract: Nursing care requirements provide the rationale for nursing practice. Two representations of nursing care requirements are nursing intensity and nursing diagnoses. In the present study, these two indicators each significantly explained variation in nursing resource consumption in home health care. Further study is needed to refine a measure of nursing intensity that has construct validity and a base in nursing theory. In addition, techniques are needed for grouping and weighting the various nursing diagnoses to reflect their contribution in explaining the amount of care provided to patients.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha.
authors.forename: B J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Hays
mesh_terms: D006295:Health Resources / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010351:Patient Discharge / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010361:Patients / Q000145:classification / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012044:Regression Analysis