Quality and cost of AIDS nursing care as a function of inpatient delivery systems.
Decisions to hospitalize persons with AIDS (PWAs) and the subsequent nursing process and outcomes associated with this hospitalization are of major concern to nurse administrators. Although decisions to hospitalize may be out of their control, events occurring during hospitalization that affect the quality of nursing care received are clearly the nurse administrator's responsibility. This report addresses a major issue concerning the care of PWAs: the decision to establish a dedicated AIDS unit. The effect upon both quality care and nursing care costs is discussed.
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School of Nursing, University of California, Los Angeles.
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Schweitzer
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D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000191:economics / Q000451:nursing*; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003625:Data Collection; D006757:Hospital Units / Q000145:classification; D006801:Humans; D015141:Los Angeles; D015401:Nursing Administration Research; D009738:Nursing Service, Hospital / Q000191:economics*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012495:San Francisco