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Thomas Jefferson University

College of Nursing Faculty Papers & Presentations

2008

Quality of health care

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Making Nursing-Sensitive Quality Indicators Real In Ambulatory Care, Beth Ann Swan May 2008

Making Nursing-Sensitive Quality Indicators Real In Ambulatory Care, Beth Ann Swan

College of Nursing Faculty Papers & Presentations

Pay for performance initiatives are changing the quality landscape.

Gaps exist in quantifying and linking ambulatory care quality indicators to care provided by nurses in ambulatory care.

Ambulatory care quality indicators that are sensitive to nursing care, standardized, and tested need to be identified and adopted by ambulatory care nurses, ambulatory care provider organizations, professional organizations, and endorsed by a consensus organization.