Validation of 'nine equivalents of nursing manpower use score' on an independent data sample

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 606-611

  Rothen, H U ^a   Kung V ^a   Ryser, D H ^a   Zurcher R ^a   Regli, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

NEMS; Nursing manpower; Nursing workload; Simplified Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System; TISS 28

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NURSING; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WORKLOAD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; WORKLOAD;

EID: 0033030848     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001340050910     Document Type: Article

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