Quality indicator of hospital nursing care

Improving the Quality of Nursing Care

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Do Managed Care and Market Competition Lower Hospital Nursing Quality ?

As the efforts in health care cost-cutting continue to grow, so too does the need to understand their potential impact on the quality of care patients receive. This study uses patient outcome measures as a proxy for hospital quality to investigate what market forces affect them. Preliminary results show that the probability of an adverse outcome depends on market, hospital, and patient characte...

Assessing quality of nursing care.

In parallel with developments in medicine much has been written in the nursing press, particularly over the past few years, on quality assurance and audit. In nursing early approaches focused on broad, proselytising statements about the nature of nursing, why quality was often not achieved, and the changes required.'1 Later, nursing practice was compared with pre-formulated standards and criter...

[Rationing of nursing care associations with patient safety and quality of hospital care].

Hospital readmission: quality indicator or statistical inevitability?

Hospital readmission rate has been a long-considered quality of care indicator in adult medicine, albeit with mixed reviews. As we begin to grapple with the quality significance and preventability of readmissions in pediatrics, however, we are outpaced by movement in the insurance industry. Section 3025 of the Affordable Care Act requires the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to reduce...