The Use of Electronic Health Record Metadata to Identify Nurse-Patient Assignments in the Intensive Care Unit: Algorithm Development and Validation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Nursing care is a critical determinant of patient outcomes in the intensive care unit (ICU). Most studies of nursing care have focused on nursing characteristics aggregated across the ICU (eg, unit-wide nurse-to-patient ratios, education, and working environment). In contrast, relatively little work has focused on the influence of individual nurses and their characteristics on patient outcomes. Such research could provide granular information needed to create evidence-based nurse assignments, where a nurse's unique skills are matched to each patient's needs. To date, research in this area is hindered by an inability to link individual nurses to specific patients retrospectively and at scale.

Objective

This study aimed to determine the feasibility of using nurse me

SUBMITTER: Riman KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9685512 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature