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Sheffer Hilel G, Drach-Zahavy A, Endevelt R. The paradoxical effects of professional stereotypes on the quality of care by interprofessional teams: The contingent effects of team faultlines, team stereotypes, and championship behaviors. Front Psychol 2023; 14:1135071. [PMID: 36998356 PMCID: PMC10043446 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1135071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2022] [Accepted: 02/23/2023] [Indexed: 03/16/2023] Open
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BackgroundDespite calls for interprofessional teamwork to ensure quality care in healthcare settings, interprofessional teams do not always perform effectively. There is evidence that professional stereotypes inhibit effective interprofessional teamwork, but they haven’t been explored as a phenomenon that impacts team’s performance and quality of care.ObjectivesTo focus on professional stereotypes emerging in interprofessional teams and examine the contingency effects of interprofessional team’s faultlines, professional stereotypes, and leader’s championship behaviors on team’s quality of care.MethodsA cross-sectional nested sample of 59 interprofessional teams and 284 professionals, working in geriatric long-term-care facilities in Israel. Additionally, five to seven of the residents of each facility were randomly sampled to obtain the outcome variable. Data collection employed a multisource (interprofessional team members), multimethod (validated questionnaires and data from residents’ health records) strategy.ResultsThe results indicated that faultlines are not directly harmful to team’s quality of care; instead, they are likely to impact quality of care only when team stereotypes emerge. Furthermore, whereas teams typified by high professional stereotypes require person-oriented championship leadership, for teams typified by low team stereotypes, championship leadership harms the quality of care they provide.ConclusionThese findings have implications for handling interprofessional teams. Practically, leaders must be well-educated to better analyze team members’ needs and maintain the appropriate leadership style.
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- Galia Sheffer Hilel
- Nutrition Sciences Department, Faculty of Sciences at Tel-Hai College, Kiryat Shmona, Israel
- *Correspondence: Galia Sheffer Hilel,
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- Nursing Department, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences at Haifa University, Haifa, Israel
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- School of Public Health, Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences at Haifa University, Haifa, Israel
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Ancira-Moreno M, Omaña-Guzmán I, Bautista-Morales AC, Acosta-Ruiz O, Hernández Cordero S, Burrola-Méndez S, Vilar-Compte M, Monterrubio Flores E, Kaufer-Horwitz M, Pérez Navarro C, Muñoz-Manrique C, Mazariegos M, Trejo-Domínguez A, Sánchez Muzquiz B, Cajero A, Brero M, Sachse M, Cobo Armijo F. Development and validation of a new set of indicators to assess the quality of maternal and child nutritional care at the primary care. Front Med (Lausanne) 2022; 9:1011940. [PMID: 36569141 PMCID: PMC9769120 DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2022.1011940] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2022] [Accepted: 11/15/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Introduction Maternal and child malnutrition is a worldwide public health problem with short, medium, and long-term adverse consequences for both mother and child. In Mexico, maternal and child malnutrition represents a serious public health problem that must be urgently addressed. In this context, Primary Health Care (PHC) plays an important role in the prevention, detection, monitoring, and treatment of the different forms of maternal and child malnutrition. Assessing the quality of nutritional care offered at this level of care is necessary in order to improve it; however, there are no indicators for the evaluation of this quality. Therefore, this study aimed at developing a set of indicators to assess the quality of maternal and child nutritional care at PHC. Methods We developed indicators for different stages of life: preconception, pregnancy, infancy, and preschool age. A systematic review of the literature on clinical guidelines for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of the different forms of malnutrition was carried out; the recommendations of the guidelines evaluated with good quality were extracted. Results Based on these recommendations, 22 indicators were constructed. A pilot study was carried out to validate the indicators and 16 indicators were selected to assess the maternal and child nutritional care at PHC.
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- Centro de Investigación en Evaluación y Encuestas, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Cuernavaca, Mexico
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- Instituto de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo con Equidad (EQUIDE), Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Department of Public Health, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, United States
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- Centro de Investigación en Nutrición y Salud, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Cuernavaca, Mexico
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- Clínica de Obesidad y Trastornos de la Conducta Alimentaria, Departamento de Endocrinología y Metabolismo, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Departamento de Nutrición y Bioprogramación, Instituto Nacional de Perinatología, Mexico City, Mexico
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- INCAP Research Center for the Prevention of Chronic Diseases (CIIPEC), Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP), Guatemala City, Guatemala
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- Department of Health, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, Mexico
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- United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), Mexico City, Mexico
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- United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), Mexico City, Mexico
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- United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), Mexico City, Mexico
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Schuetz P, Sulo S, Walzer S, Krenberger S, Stagna Z, Gomes F, Mueller B, Brunton C. Economic Evaluation of Individualized Nutritional Support for Hospitalized Patients with Chronic Heart Failure. Nutrients 2022; 14:nu14091703. [PMID: 35565669 PMCID: PMC9099480 DOI: 10.3390/nu14091703] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2022] [Revised: 04/13/2022] [Accepted: 04/18/2022] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Background Malnutrition is a highly prevalent risk factor in hospitalized patients with chronic heart failure (CHF). A recent randomized trial found lower mortality and improved health outcomes when CHF patients with nutritional risk received individualized nutritional treatment. Objective To estimate the cost-effectiveness of individualized nutritional support in hospitalized patients with CHF. Methods This analysis used data from CHF patients at risk of malnutrition (N = 645) who were part of the Effect of Early Nutritional Therapy on Frailty, Functional Outcomes and Recovery of Undernourished Medical Inpatients Trial (EFFORT). Study patients with CHF were randomized into (i) an intervention group (individualized nutritional support to reach energy, protein, and micronutrient goals) or (ii) a control group (receiving standard hospital food). We used a Markov model with daily cycles (over a 6-month interval) to estimate hospital costs and health outcomes in the comparator groups, thus modeling cost-effectiveness ratios of nutritional interventions. Results With nutritional support, the modeled total additional cost over the 6-month interval was 15,159 Swiss Francs (SF). With an additional 5.77 life days, the overall incremental cost-effectiveness ratio for nutritional support vs. no nutritional support was 2625 SF per life day gained. In terms of complications, patients receiving nutritional support had a cost savings of 6214 SF and an additional 4.11 life days without complications, yielding an incremental cost-effectiveness ratio for avoided complications of 1513 SF per life day gained. Conclusions On the basis of a Markov model, this economic analysis found that in-hospital nutritional support for CHF patients increased life expectancy at an acceptable incremental cost-effectiveness ratio.
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- Philipp Schuetz
- Medical University Department, Kantonsspital Aarau, 5001 Aarau, Switzerland;
- Medical Faculty, University of Basel, 4001 Basel, Switzerland
- Correspondence: ; Fax: +41-62-838-4100
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- Abbott Nutrition, Chicago, IL 60045, USA; (S.S.); (C.B.)
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- MArS Market Access & Pricing Strategy GmbH, 79576 Weil am Rhein, Germany; (S.W.); (S.K.)
- Health Care Management, State University Baden-Wuerttemberg, 70174 Loerrach, Germany
- Social Work & Health Care, University of Applied Sciences Ravensburg-Weingarten, 88250 Weingarten, Germany
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- MArS Market Access & Pricing Strategy GmbH, 79576 Weil am Rhein, Germany; (S.W.); (S.K.)
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- Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, Nutritional Medicine and Metabolism, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, 4001 Bern, Switzerland;
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- NOVA Medical School, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, 1169-056 Lisboa, Portugal;
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- Medical University Department, Kantonsspital Aarau, 5001 Aarau, Switzerland;
- Medical Faculty, University of Basel, 4001 Basel, Switzerland
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- Abbott Nutrition, Chicago, IL 60045, USA; (S.S.); (C.B.)
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A novel a priori food-based dietary quality indicator and its application in long-term care homes: the Quality Index for Nutrition in Nursing Homes (QUINN). NUTR HOSP 2022; 39:1237-1255. [DOI: 10.20960/nh.04283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Taipa-Mendes AM, Amaral TF, Gregório M. Undernutrition risk and nutritional screening implementation in hospitals: Barriers and time trends (2019-2020). Clin Nutr ESPEN 2021; 45:192-199. [PMID: 34620317 DOI: 10.1016/j.clnesp.2021.08.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2021] [Revised: 08/12/2021] [Accepted: 08/23/2021] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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BACKGROUND & AIMS Undernutrition screening is the starting point for high-quality nutrition care. In Portugal, the systematic nutritional risk assessment became mandatory for every inpatient in hospitals of the National Health System in 2019. The aims of this study were to describe the country's nutritional risk prevalence of hospitalized patients, and the experience of implementing a systematic undernutrition screening method, including time trends, barriers, and facilitators. METHODS This research was carried out in Portuguese Public Hospitals (n = 49) and included both the analysis of data from health information systems between January 2019 and December 2020 and from an online survey. The performance indicators are described for 38 hospitals that use the SClinico electronic health records software provided by the Ministry of Health. The Nutritional Risk Screening 2002 (NRS 2002) was applied to adult patients and the STRONGkids to paediatric patients. In order to assess barriers and facilitators the online survey was applied to all public hospitals (n = 49), including Hospital Centres and Local Health Units. RESULTS In 2020, 25.5% of the screened patients were nutritionally at risk. There was a significant increase in the proportion of patients screened from the pre- (10.6 ± 1.9%) to the post-adaptation period of the electronic health record (23.3 ± 4.8%, July-December 2019, and 25.4 ± 2.2%, January-June 2020) (p < 0.001). Data from 41 Hospital Centres and Local Health Units (84%) were obtained from the online survey. The major barriers identified were the lack of human resources (89.7%) and equipment (41.0%), as well as insufficient knowledge about the role of undernutrition screening (35.9%). The most-reported facilitators were the integration of undernutrition screening to electronic health records (22.2%) and good multidisciplinary articulation (36.1%). CONCLUSION The high prevalence of nutritional risk justifies the mandatory nutritional screening, which leads to the improvement of the quality of hospital care. However, local and national efforts are warranted to adapt nutritional screening policies to local conditions and to increase and improve its implementation.
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- A M Taipa-Mendes
- Faculty of Nutrition and Food Sciences, University of Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre, 823, 4150-180, Porto, Portugal.
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- Faculty of Nutrition and Food Sciences, University of Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre, 823, 4150-180, Porto, Portugal
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- Faculty of Nutrition and Food Sciences, University of Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre, 823, 4150-180, Porto, Portugal; Directorate-General of Health, Alameda Afonso Henriques, 45 1049-005, Lisboa, Portugal
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Eglseer D, Huppertz V, Kammer L, Saka B, Schols J, Everink I. The quality of nutritional care in hospitals: Austria, Switzerland, and Turkey compared. Nutrition 2020; 79-80:110990. [PMID: 32987336 DOI: 10.1016/j.nut.2020.110990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2020] [Revised: 07/29/2020] [Accepted: 08/15/2020] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate the differences in the quality of nutritional care among Austria, Switzerland, and Turkey. METHODS This was a cross-sectional multicenter study. Data were collected using a standardized questionnaire. Descriptive statistics and univariate and multivariate logistic regression (adjusted for age, sex, number of diagnoses, and care dependency) analyses were performed. RESULTS Taking part in the study were 6293 patients from 62 hospitals. The prevalence of risk for malnutrition and the patients was 14.5% in Austria, 16.5% in Switzerland, and 33.7% in Turkey. Standardized screening procedures were applied in 51.3% of Austrian, 53.6% of Swiss, and 38.4% of Turkish patients. The interventions applied in patients at risk varied significantly between Austrian, Swiss, and Turkish hospitals for all but two interventions. Referrals to dietitians were lower in Austria (35.8%) and Switzerland (37.7%) compared with Turkey (61%). Turkish patients received more frequent oral nutritional supplementation, an energy-protein-enriched diet, or parenteral nutrition compared with those in Austrian or Swiss hospitals. The differences in the quality of nutritional care between Austrian and Swiss hospitals were only marginal. Of at-risk patients, 15.3% in Austria, 11.4% in Switzerland, and 5.5% in Turkey did not receive any intervention. CONCLUSIONS The findings of this study indicated that significant differences exist in the prevalence, identification and treatment of malnutrition, and the fulfillment of structural quality indicators. Standards and guidelines need to be developed that can be used by all countries. The severity of the malnutrition situation in hospitals needs further attention in future management policies.
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- Doris Eglseer
- Institute of Nursing Science, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria.
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- Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism (School NUTRIM), Department of Respiratory Medicine, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Health, Division of Nursing, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Bern, Switzerland
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- Istanbul Medical Faculty, Department of Internal Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Care and Public Health Research Institute, Department of Health Services Research, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Care and Public Health Research Institute, Department of Health Services Research, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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Moick S, Hiesmayr M, Mouhieddine M, Kiss N, Bauer P, Sulz I, Singer P, Simon J. Reducing the knowledge to action gap in hospital nutrition care - Developing and implementing nutritionDay 2.0. Clin Nutr 2020; 40:936-945. [PMID: 32747205 DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2020.06.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2020] [Revised: 06/16/2020] [Accepted: 06/18/2020] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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BACKGROUND & AIMS In hospital nutrition care the difficulty of translating knowledge to action often leads to inadequate management of patients with malnutrition. nutritionDay, an annual cross-sectional survey has been assessing nutrition care in healthcare institutions in 66 countries since 2006. While initial efforts led to increased awareness of malnutrition, specific local remedial actions rarely followed. Thus, reducing the Knowledge-to-action (KTA) gap in nutrition care requires more robust and focused strategies. This study describes the strategy, methods, instruments and experience of developing and implementing nutritionDay 2.0, an audit and feedback intervention that uses quality and economic indicators, feedback, benchmarking and self-defined action strategies to reduce the KTA gap in hospital nutrition care. METHODS We used an evidence based multi-professional mixed-methods approach to develop and implement nutritionDay 2.0 This audit and feedback intervention is driven by a Knowledge-to-Action framework complemented with robust stakeholder analysis. Further evidence was synthesized from the literature, online surveys, a pilot study, World Cafés and individual expert feedback involving international health care professionals, nutrition care scientists and patients. RESULTS The process of developing and implementing nutritionDay 2.0 over three years resulted in a new audit questionnaire based on 36 nutrition care quality and economic indicators at hospital, unit and patient levels, a new action-oriented feedback and benchmarking report and a unit-level personalizable action plan template. The evaluation of nutritionDay 2.0 is ongoing and will include satisfaction and utility of nutritionDay 2.0 tools and short-, mid- and long-term effects on the KTA gap. CONCLUSION In clinical practice, nutritionDay 2.0 has the potential to promote behavioural and practice changes and improve hospital nutrition care outcomes. In research, the data generated advances knowledge about institutional malnutrition and quality of hospital nutrition care. The ongoing evaluation of the initiative will reveal how far the KTA gap in hospital nutrition care was addressed and facilitate the understanding of the mechanisms needed for successful audit and feedback. TRIAL REGISTRATION Registration in clinicaltrials.gov: Identifier: NCT02820246.
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- S Moick
- nutritionDay worldwide, Höfergasse 13/5, Vienna, 1090, Austria.
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- Department Cardiac-, Thoracic-, Vascular Anaesthesia and Intensive Care and CEMSIIS, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, A-1090, Austria.
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- Department Cardiac-, Thoracic-, Vascular Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, A-1090, Austria.
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- Department of Health Economics, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, A-1090, Austria.
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- Centre for Medical Statistics, Informatics and Intelligent Systems, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, A-1090, Austria.
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- Centre for Medical Statistics, Informatics and Intelligent Systems, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, A-1090, Austria.
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- Department of General Intensive Care, Rabin Medical Center, Petah Tikva and Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
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- Department of Health Economics, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, A-1090, Austria.
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Quality of Care: Ecological Study for the Evaluation of Completeness and Accuracy in Nursing Assessment. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2020; 17:ijerph17093259. [PMID: 32392838 PMCID: PMC7246491 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17093259] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2020] [Revised: 04/25/2020] [Accepted: 05/02/2020] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Nursing documentation is an important proxy of the quality of care, and quality indicators in nursing assessment can be used to assess and improve the quality of care in health care institutions. The study aims to evaluate the completeness and the accuracy of nursing assessment, analyzing the compilation of pain assessment and nutritional status (body mass index (BMI)) in computerized nursing records, and how it is influenced by four variables: nurse to patient ratio, diagnosis related group weight (DRG), seniority of charge nurse, and type of ward (medical, surgical or other). The observational ecological pilot study was conducted between September and October 2018 in an Italian Tertiary-Level Teaching Hospital. The nursing documentation analyzed for the ‘Assessment’ phase included 12,513 records, 50.4% concerning pain assessment, and 45% BMI. The nurse–patient ratio showed a significant direct association with the assessment of nutritional status (p = 0.032). The average weight DRG has a negative influence on pain and BMI assessment; the surgical units positively correlate with the compilation of nursing assessment (BMI and pain). The nursing process is an essential component for the continuous improvement in the quality of care. Nurses need to be accountable to improve their knowledge and skills in nursing documentation.
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