Nurse value-added and patient outcomes in acute care.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The aims of the study were to (1) estimate the relative nurse effectiveness, or individual nurse value-added (NVA), to patients' clinical condition change during hospitalization; (2) examine nurse characteristics contributing to NVA; and (3) estimate the contribution of value-added nursing care to patient outcomes.

Data sources/study setting

Electronic data on 1,203 staff nurses matched with 7,318 adult medical-surgical patients discharged between July 1, 2011 and December 31, 2011 from an urban Magnet-designated, 854-bed teaching hospital.

Study design

Retrospective observational longitudinal analysis using a covariate-adjustment value-added model with nurse fixed effects.

Data collection/extraction methods

Data were extracted from the study hospital

SUBMITTER: Yakusheva O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4254124 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature