title: Can you depend on your patient classification system?
abstract: Should the nurse executive rely on the patient classification model for the allocation of staff and charging for nursing services? In a comparison of predicted patient classification scores with actual scores, patient care needs were underrated by 8 to 33 minutes per patient day, resulting in a deficit of 0.24 to 2.99 full-time equivalent employees. The authors discuss the implications of these findings.
authors.affiliation: Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters, Norfolk, Virginia, USA.
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Hlusko
authors.forename: B S
authors.initials: BS
authors.lastname: Nichols
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007297:Inpatients / Q000145:classification*; D015401:Nursing Administration Research; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D009745:Nursing, Supervisory; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D011446:Prospective Studies; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012189:Retrospective Studies