Developing measures of pediatric nursing quality.
Recent research has highlighted the impact of nursing care on patient outcomes. The link to staffing has also been documented for selected conditions. To date, efforts to establish nurse-sensitive measures have focused largely on adults. This article describes the project undertaken to select and pilot 2 pediatric indicators of nursing quality care to be included in an ongoing national benchmarking program.
Lacey
Susan R
SR
University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA. laceys@uab.edu
Klaus
Susan F
SF
Smith
Janis B
JB
Cox
Karen S
KS
Dunton
Nancy E
NE
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