New medicare payment rules: Danger or opportunity for nursing?

American Journal of Nursing

Volumn 108, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 30-35

  Kurtzman, Ellen T ^a   Buerhaus, Peter I ^b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROSS INFECTION; DECUBITUS; ECONOMICS; FALLING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MEDICARE; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT; REIMBURSEMENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; CROSS INFECTION; HUMANS; MEDICARE; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PRESSURE ULCER; PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT SYSTEM; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REIMBURSEMENT, INCENTIVE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 45849123565     PISSN: 0002936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.NAJ.0000324370.71532.b7     Document Type: Article

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