title: [Empirical analysis of work flow in inpatient nursing homes for the elderly].
abstract: The paper starts by offering a short overview of the state of implementation of the 2nd stage of the newly introduced German Long-Term-Care-Insurance (Pflegeversicherung). It continues to present results of a detailed descriptive analysis of employee activities in (long-term-care-)nursing-homes, differentiating by severity of the patients' condition. Surprisingly nurses spend a large part of their time (40%) on other than nursing activities. The time spent with individual patients varies considerably with sex and the main diagnosis; thus significantly more time is spent on (basic and treatment-related) nursing care for male patients. Age per se does not appear to influence the time required for taking care of a patient.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Universität Augsburg.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Busch
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Huchler
authors.forename: A B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Pfaff
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006707:Homes for the Aged / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009735:Nursing Homes / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis
vernacular_title: Empirische Analyse von Betriebsabläufen in Einrichtungen der stationären Altenhilfe.