Developing measures of pediatric nursing quality.
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چکیده
Recent research has highlighted the impact of nursing care on patient outcomes. The link to staffing has also been documented for selected conditions. To date, efforts to establish nurse-sensitive measures have focused largely on adults. This article describes the project undertaken to select and pilot 2 pediatric indicators of nursing quality care to be included in an ongoing national benchmarking program.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of nursing care quality
دوره 21 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2006