Patient dependency in the emergency department (ED): Reliability and validity of the Jones Dependency Tool (JDT)

Accident and Emergency Nursing

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 219-229

  Crouch, Robert ^a   Williams, Susan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SOUTHAMPTON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emergency nursing; Health workforce planning; Patient care planning; Patient classification systems; Patient dependency; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLASSIFICATION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY NURSING; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NURSING ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME; UNITED KINGDOM; VALIDATION STUDY; WORKLOAD;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EMERGENCY NURSING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS; TRIAGE; WORKLOAD;

EID: 33750523421     PISSN: 09652302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aaen.2006.06.005     Document Type: Article

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