Measuring the nursing workload per shift in the ICU

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1438-1444

  Debergh, Dieter P ^a   Myny, Dries ^a   Van Herzeele, Isabelle ^a   Van Maele, Georges ^b   Miranda, Dinis Reis ^c   Colardyn, Francis ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Intensive care unit; NAS; Nursing; Shift; Workload

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE NURSING; MALE; NURSING CARE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; SHIFT WORKER; WORKLOAD;

APACHE; CRITICAL CARE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT FAILURE; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84866737829     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-012-2648-3     Document Type: Article

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