Abstract - Finding Value: An Approach to Determine Nursing Performance
If we ask a large group of nurses whether they add value to patient care, nearly all would say yes. However, it is excruciatingly difficult to measure nursing care value at both the point of care and across the health care system as a whole. In the past several years, efforts have been made to move towards a value-based health care system, one in which each provider is linked to their outcomes of care individually and collectively. Physicians as well as health care systems are increasingly paid based on quality, efficiency, outcomes, safety, cost reduction, person and community engagement (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, 2019). Hospitals also are measured on patient satisfaction and reimbursement is allocated according to both overall scores and improvement in scores over time. One of the key questions: Where do nurses fit in this evolving value equation? This article demonstrates new data science techniques emerging within acute care settings that link individual nurses to each patient via data from the shift assignment...
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