Can you depend on your patient classification system?

Journal of Nursing Administration

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 39-44

  Hlusko, Dana L ^a   Nichols, Brenda S ^b  

^a Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters   (United States)

^b OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; MANAGER; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NURSE; PATIENT CODING; REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INPATIENTS; NURSING ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; NURSING, SUPERVISORY; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0029939209     PISSN: 00020443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005110-199604000-00012     Document Type: Review

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