title: Development of a nurse executive decision support database. A model for outcomes evaluation.
abstract: It is increasingly more important that nurse executives systematically evaluate innovations and changes in nursing practice and management. To plan effectively, data elements that are most appropriate for decision making must be identified and strategies for data collection and analysis must be formulated. The author describes a model in which an identifiable group of clinical, fiscal, quality, productivity, and care provider variables serve as data for baseline and later comparative evaluations.
authors.affiliation: Patient Care Services, Butterworth Hospital, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA.
authors.forename: L D
authors.initials: LD
authors.lastname: Urden
mesh_terms: D003660:Decision Support Systems, Management / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006757:Hospital Units; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009718:Nurse Administrators; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000145:classification; D009738:Nursing Service, Hospital; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000523:psychology; D015279:Organizational Culture; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D017060:Patient Satisfaction