title: Feasibility of linking external valuation sources to bedside-caregiver activities in interdisciplinary patient care standards.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
authors.forename: Jeff
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Washburn
authors.forename: Sidney N
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Thornton
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hansmann
authors.forename: Sharon M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Bigelow
authors.forename: Jeff
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Worthen
authors.forename: Roberto A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Rocha
mesh_terms: D017028:Caregivers; D019992:Databases as Topic; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D006801:Humans; D008498:Medical Record Linkage; D005791:Patient Care / Q000592:standards*; D016526:Workload