title: Rationale for Quantification in Nursing Services Using the International Council of Nurses Nurse-Patient Summary.
abstract: This review provides evidence that new data from nurses meets criteria that explains variation in hospital charges, length of hospital stay and end results of hospital care compared with ICD data; that nurses' data can be used to evaluate assignments of nurses to patients; that new data properly distinguishes patients' human needs within ICD categories. These new data are derived from the professional literature indexed and synthesized by Henderson. It is proposed to adopt the ICN-NPSum to standardize quantification in nursing services.
authors.affiliation: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
authors.forename: Edward J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Halloran
authors.affiliation: University of Colorado.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Welton
authors.affiliation: Clinical Research APTINYX.
authors.forename: H Lee
authors.initials: HL
authors.lastname: Bastin
authors.affiliation: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
authors.forename: Kennedy
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Onori
mesh_terms: D038801:International Classification of Diseases / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009737:Nursing Records / Q000145:classification / Q000592:standards*; D009738:Nursing Service, Hospital / Q000145:classification* / Q000592:standards*; D063886:Patient Discharge Summaries / Q000145:classification / Q000592:standards*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000592:standards; D014481:United States