Same-handed and mirrored unit configurations: Is there a difference in patient and nurse outcomes?

Journal of Nursing Administration

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 273-279

  Watkins, Nicholas ^a   Kennedy, Mary ^b   Ducharme, Maria ^b   Padula, Cynthia ^b  

^a HOK   (United States)

^b MIRIAM HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALLING; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HOSPITAL DESIGN; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NOISE; NURSING CARE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HOSPITAL DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; NURSING CARE; PATIENTS' ROOMS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79958103969     PISSN: 00020443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NNA.0b013e31821c47b4     Document Type: Article

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