Factors associated with the time nurses spend at the bedsides of seriously III patients with poor prognoses

Medical Care

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 458-466

  Sulmasy, Daniel P ^a,b   Sood, Johanna R ^a  

^a St Vincent's Manhattan   (United States)

^b NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Death and dying; Do not resuscitate orders; End of life; Nursing; Palliative care; Race; Time motion

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; NURSING CARE; NURSING STAFF; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RESUSCITATION; STANDARD; STATISTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK CITY; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING AUDIT; NURSING CARE; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME AND MOTION STUDIES;

EID: 0037390819     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005650-200304000-00002     Document Type: Article

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