title: Refining a classification system for fiscal and staffing management.
abstract: Believing that nurses must agree on a uniform system for defining nursing hours and on a method for determining costs, the author describes how an automated patient classification system was enhanced as a preliminary step to cost out nursing. Nursing administrators are encouraged to refine patient classification systems so that accurate data for fiscal and staffing management can be generated.
mesh_terms: D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D003953:Diagnosis-Related Groups / Q000379:methods*; D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D006801:Humans; D008331:Management Information Systems; D008910:Minnesota; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D010361:Patients / Q000145:classification; D010562:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling Information Systems; D013996:Time and Motion Studies