Associations of patient safety outcomes with models of nursing care organization at unit level in hospitals

International Journal for Quality in Health Care

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 110-117

  Dubois, Carl Ardy ^a   D'amour, Danielle ^a   Tchouaket, Eric ^b   Clarke, Sean ^c   Rivard, Michèle ^a   Blais, Régis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC EN OUTAOUAIS   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Measurement of quality; Nursing care models; Nursing care organization; Nursing sensitive outcomes; Patient safety

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECUBITUS; FALLING; HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEDICATION ERROR; NURSING ORGANIZATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL ERRORS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NURSING; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; ODDS RATIO; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT SAFETY; QUEBEC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84875766921     PISSN: 13534505     EISSN: 14643677     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/intqhc/mzt019     Document Type: Article

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