Nine equivalents of nursing manpower use score (NEMS)

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 760-765

  Reis Miranda, D ^a   Moreno, R ^b   Iapichino, G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Hospital St António Capuchos   (Portugal)

^c SAN PAOLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Intensive care unit; NEMS; Nursing manpower; Nursing workload; TISS; TISS 28

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MANPOWER; NURSING STAFF; PREDICTION; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WORKLOAD;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EUROPE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MULTICENTER STUDIES; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NETHERLANDS; NURSING ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; WORKLOAD;

EID: 0030828279     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001340050406     Document Type: Article

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