Feasibility of linking external valuation sources to bedside-caregiver activities in interdisciplinary patient care standards.
Establishing accurate and standardized values for bedside-care activities is crucial to the development of resource utilization prediction and management systems. We describe our experience of associating a representative sample of activities extracted from interdisciplinary patient care standards developed at Intermountain Healthcare with an external database of time & motion valued actions. The association exercise revealed important considerations for the development of a standard methodology for linking activities to future national or international standardized value units.
Washburn
Jeff
J
Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Thornton
Sidney N
SN
Hansmann
John
J
Bigelow
Sharon M
SM
Worthen
Jeff
J
Rocha
Roberto A
RA
D017028:Caregivers; D019992:Databases as Topic; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D006801:Humans; D008498:Medical Record Linkage; D005791:Patient Care / Q000592:standards*; D016526:Workload