Rationing of nursing care is a widespread and growing phenomenon whose causes are multifaceted consequences serious. Nursing rationing defined as withholding or failing to perform necessary tasks due insufficient time, staffing, and/or inadequate skills. also omission, delay, failure complete, which qualifies an error omission. Unfinished has many negative for patients, nurses, organizations. T...

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is the most commonly used approach for evaluating healthcare efficiency (Hollingsworth, 2008), but a long-standing concern is that DEA assumes that data are measured without error. This is quite unlikely, and DEA and other efficiency analysis techniques may yield biased efficiency estimates if it is not realized (Gajewski, Lee, Bott, Piamjariyakul and Taunton, 20...

AIM This paper is a report of the analysis of the concept of missed nursing care. BACKGROUND According to patient safety literature, missed nursing care is an error of omission. This concept has been conspicuously absent in quality and patient safety literature, with individual aspects of nursing care left undone given only occasional mention. METHOD An 8-step method of concept analysis - s...

Background Revealing an error to a patient is an important ethical consideration. The present study was designed to explore nurses’ perceived concerns regarding error disclosure. Method Information obtained from 80 experienced nurses regarding their error disclosure using focused group discussion method. Data were then analyzed using inductive content analysis method. Results patient’s reaction...

introduction: nowadays, the widespread distribution of hospital information systems (his) in healthcare institutions requires professional evaluation to assess the practical usefulness of these applications. nursing staff are the largest group of staff in a hospital and play an important role in the adoption and evaluation of hiss. methods: this was a descriptive, analytic, cross-sectional stud...

patients safety status in intensive care unit of urmia hospitals from nurses viewpoint     sheikhbaklu m [1] , hemmati maslakpak m [2] *, baghaie r [3]     received: 9 apr , 2013 accepted: 15 jun , 2013     abstract   background & aims : patient safety is central to high quality care, and keeping it in a standard level can lead to success in accessing the treatment outcomes. this study evaluate...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the accuracy of the Minimum Data Set (MDS) in identifying hospitalization events and payment source among nursing home residents. RESEARCH DESIGN The 2003 MDS, Medicare Provider Analysis and Review File (MedPAR), Medicare denominator file, Medicaid Analytical Extract (MAX) long-term care file, and MAX personal summary file for 4 states (California, Ohio, New York, and T...