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Measurement of patient dependency in the Intensive Care Unit
Author(s) -
Asbury A. John,
Green D.E.J.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.839
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1365-2044
pISSN - 0003-2409
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1978.tb08333.x
Subject(s) - medicine , dependency (uml) , intensive care unit , work (physics) , simple (philosophy) , unit (ring theory) , patient care , medical emergency , nursing , intensive care medicine , artificial intelligence , mechanical engineering , philosophy , mathematics education , mathematics , epistemology , computer science , engineering
A simple method of evaluating actual patient dependency is presented and a suggestion made as to how this dependency can be correlated with nursing staff levels. It is proposed that each ICU work out the trends in its work load according to this system.