Nurse staffing and system integration and change indicators in acute care hospitals: evidence from a balanced scorecard.
This study examined relationships between financial indicators for nurse staffing and organizational system integration and change indicators. These indicators, along with hospital location and type, were examined in relation to the nursing financial indicators. Results showed that different indicators predicted each of the outcome variables. Nursing care hours were predicted by the hospital type, geographic location, and the system. Both nursing and patient care hours were significantly related to dissemination and benchmarking of clinical data.
Lawrence S Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. l.mcgillishall@utoronto.ca
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McGillis Hall
Jessica
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Peterson
G Ross
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Baker
Adalsteinn D
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Brown
George H
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Pink
Ian
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McKillop
Imtiaz
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Daniel
Cheryl
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Pedersen
D000208:Acute Disease / Q000451:nursing; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D019985:Benchmarking / Q000458:organization & administration; D002985:Clinical Protocols; D004180:Direct Service Costs / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006302:Health Services Research; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D015401:Nursing Administration Research; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009864:Ontario; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D018511:Systems Integration; D016526:Workload / Q000191:economics