Nurse staffing and cost of care in adult intensive care units in a university hospital in Thailand

Nursing and Health Sciences

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 31-36

  Thungjaroenkul, Petsunee ^a   Kunaviktikul, Wipada ^a   Jacobs, Philip ^b   Cummings, Greta G ^c,d   Akkadechanunt, Thitinut ^a  

^a CHIANG MAI UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b ALBERTA ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d CANADIAN INSTITUTES OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cost of care; Critically ill patient; Intensive care unit; Nurse staffing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE NURSING; LENGTH OF STAY; NURSING COST; NURSING STAFF; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTERED NURSE; THAILAND;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSES; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAFETY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; THAILAND;

EID: 38949114215     PISSN: 14410745     EISSN: 14422018     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-2018.2007.00334.x     Document Type: Article

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