title: The care hours metric: a useful tool?
authors.affiliation: Chief Nurse at Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, discusses the thorny issue of care hours. While it may not be perfect and divides opinion, she argues, it does have its operational uses.
authors.forename: Sam
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Foster
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom