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Cost Documentation of School Nursing Follow‐up Services
Author(s) -
Oda Dorothy S.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
journal of school health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.851
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1746-1561
pISSN - 0022-4391
DOI - 10.1111/j.1746-1561.1986.tb05676.x
Subject(s) - allowance (engineering) , nursing , medicine , ethnic group , school nursing , documentation , school health , family medicine , psychology , medical education , mechanical engineering , sociology , anthropology , computer science , engineering , programming language
The cost of nursing services was documented as part of a grant to study the effect of school nursing follow‐up on the outcome of dental screening. Eleven nurses participated in the study with experimental (n = 287) groups of fifth and sixth grade students from a large West Coast school district who were screened for caries. Stratifiers for the randomized group assignment were school, cavity severity, gender, ethnicity, and insurance coverage. A positive difference occurred for the 11 nurses (p = 0.0046). The cost of telephone follow‐up averaged $8.92 for 26.69 minutes and compared favorably with a California state allowance of $11 for a half‐hour of similar service. The study offers a beginning analytical formulation for examining field services in school and community health nursing using a naturalistic experimental design.