Nursing Activities Score in the intensive care unit: Analysis of the related factors

Intensive and Critical Care Nursing

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 197-204

  Padilha, Katia Grillo ^a   de Sousa, Regina Márcia Cardoso ^a   Queijo, Alda Ferreira ^a   Mendes, Ana Márcia ^a   Miranda, Dinis Reis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Health Services Research Unit   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Critical care; Indicators of health services; Intensive care units; Nursing workload

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APACHE; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VALIDATION STUDY; WORKLOAD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APACHE; BRAZIL; CRITICAL CARE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME AND MOTION STUDIES; WORKLOAD;

EID: 42949109725     PISSN: 09643397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.iccn.2007.09.004     Document Type: Article

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