[Evaluation of a simple nursing load score (author's transl)].
It becomes increasingly important to assess the nursing load in geriatric medicine in order to gauge the needs of the geriatric patients. To this purpose a simple system is needs. We evaluated a Swedish (1) scoring system by comparing thr nursing load in 3 geriatric wards (with a total of 171 patients 1977 and 160 patients 1978) at the end of the calender year. The nursing load was similarly distributed in each ward at the beginning and the end of the observation period. Marked  differences was observed between patients who were discharged, who remained in the clinic or who died within the one year period. Of particular importance is the finding that mental deterioration correlated significantly (p smaller than 0.001) with increased overall nursing requirements. This points to the great importance of psychogeriatric diseases for future demand in nursing care.
D000368:Aged; D005851:Geriatric Nursing; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology; D009732:Nursing Care
Aussgekraft von Beurteilungskriterien der Pflegebedürftigkeit.