Capacity management of nursing staff as a vehicle for organizational improvement

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Elkhuizen, Sylvia G ^a   Bor, Gert ^a   Smeenk, Marjolein ^a   Klazinga, Niek S ^a   Bakker, Piet J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH SERVICE; LENGTH OF STAY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NURSING STAFF; PATIENT CARE; WARD; WORK CAPACITY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITAL BED UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL SUBDIVISIONS AND COMPONENTS; HUMAN; MANPOWER; METHODOLOGY; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NETHERLANDS; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TIME; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

BED OCCUPANCY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, MANAGEMENT; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITAL UNITS; HUMANS; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NETHERLANDS; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; TIME FACTORS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 38849102912     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-7-196     Document Type: Article

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