title: Health reform--its potential impact on hospital nursing service.
abstract: The passage of major health reform measures in the United States focusing on universal access and cost containment could potentially have a significant impact on the delivery of nursing services in our nation's acute-care facilities. If President Clinton's global budgetary target concept, which is used in most western countries to constrain expenditures, is implemented in the United States, the experience of Canadian medium-size and teaching hospitals suggests that such a cost-containment approach would have a modest impact on nurse staffing patterns here.
authors.forename: T P
authors.initials: TP
authors.lastname: Weil
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Stack
mesh_terms: D002017:Budgets; D003363:Cost Control; D018166:Health Care Reform; D005102:Health Expenditures; D006801:Humans; D009738:Nursing Service, Hospital / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards; D014481:United States; D000078329:Workforce