Automating ward evaluations: a tentative first step.
Auditing nursing practice is a time-consuming, error-prone task. Feedback to individuals is highly desirable but usually is not offered. This is particularly difficult in large-scale studies. In this study of 654 wards a new method was attempted. Structured questionnaires were analysed by a computer program and feedback reports generated automatically. Informal evaluations by the initial recipients are positive and the method seems worthy of future development.
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Mead
D006757:Hospital Units / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D008331:Management Information Systems; D009731:Nursing Audit / Q000379:methods*; D012986:Software Validation