Making nursing-sensitive quality indicators real in ambulatory care.
Pay-for-performance initiatives are changing the quality landscape. Gaps exist in quantifying and linking ambulatory care quality indicators to care provided by nurses in ambulatory care. Ambulatory care quality indicators that are sensitive to nursing care, standardized, and tested need to be identified and adopted by ambulatory care nurses, ambulatory care provider organizations, professional organizations, and endorsed by a consensus organization.
Swan
Beth Ann
BA
Jefferson School of Nursing, Thomas Jefferson University, Jefferson College of Health Professions, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
D000553:Ambulatory Care / Q000592:standards*; D014487:Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.; D006801:Humans; D009042:Motivation; D009729:Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D012456:Salaries and Fringe Benefits; D014481:United States