Impact of localizing general medical teams to a single nursing unit

Journal of Hospital Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 551-556

  Singh, Siddhartha ^a   Tarima, Sergey ^a   Rana, Vipulkumar ^a   Marks, David S ^a   Conti, Mary ^b   Idstein, Kathleen ^a   Biblo, Lee A ^a   Fletcher, Kathlyn E ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b FROEDTERT MEMORIAL LUTHERAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MEDICAL STAFF; NURSING UNIT; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; TEAMWORK; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; NURSING SERVICE, HOSPITAL; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT CARE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; WISCONSIN; WORKFLOW;

EID: 84865996959     PISSN: 15535592     EISSN: 15535606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jhm.1948     Document Type: Article

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