title: Promoting measure of nursing care workload through computerization.
abstract: In order to obtain a global approach of the patient centered activity and relative costs, we propose to add to the DRG a care workload evaluation. Such an application was developed and integrated to the automated medical record implemented in each medical department of the hospital. The "Soins Infirmiers Individualisés à la Personne Soignée" (SIIPS) indicator was chosen to estimate nursing acuity. Implementation of the application in ten departments and first results permit to demonstrate the system feasability and the fiability of this indicator. These conclusions conducted us to propose the extension of this experimentation to all the clinical departments of the hospital before the end of 1995.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Saint-Louis University Hospital, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, France.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lepage
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Guillemet
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Durepaire
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dupont
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Veyer
mesh_terms: D003953:Diagnosis-Related Groups; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling; D012984:Software; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D016526:Workload