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Proposing a New Conceptual Model and an Exemplar Measure Using Health Information: Technology to Examine the Impact of Relational Nurse Continuity on Hospital-Acquired Pressure Ulcers
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Proposing a New Conceptual Model and an Exemplar Measure Using Health Information: Technology to Examine the Impact of Relational Nurse Continuity on Hospital-Acquired Pressure Ulcers

Janet Stifter, Yingwei Yao, Karen Dunn Lopez, Ashfaq Khokhar, Diana J. Wilkie and Gail M. Keenan
Advances in nursing science, Vol.38(3), pp.241-251
07/2015
DOI: 10.1097/ANS.0000000000000081
PMCID: PMC4936776
PMID: 26244480
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/4936776View
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Abstract

The influence of the staffing variable nurse continuity on patient outcomes has been rarely studied and with inconclusive results. Multiple definitions and an absence of systematic methods for measuring the influence of continuity have resulted in its exclusion from nurse-staffing studies and conceptual models. We present a new conceptual model and an innovative use of health information technology to measure nurse continuity and to demonstrate the potential for bringing the results of big data science back to the bedside. Understanding the power of big data to address critical clinical issues may foster a new direction for nursing administration theory development.
adverse patient outcomes big data science conceptual model health information technology nurse continuity nurse staffing

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