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Nurse Value-Added And Patient Outcomes In Acute Care, Olga Yakusheva, Richard C. Lindrooth, Marianne E. Weiss
Nurse Value-Added And Patient Outcomes In Acute Care, Olga Yakusheva, Richard C. Lindrooth, Marianne E. Weiss
College of Nursing Faculty Research and Publications
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 …