Koen Van den Heede

..The fourth phase (January-December 2005) will focus on information management...

..This can obscure relationships between staffing and outcomes at the unit level and lead to invalid inferences...

..The realization of an organizational context that succeeds to retain nurses within their job is one of the most effective strategies of dealing with nursing shortages...

..This paper is a report of a cost-effectiveness analysis from a hospital perspective of increased nurse staffing levels (to the level of the 75th percentile) in Belgian general cardiac postoperative nursing units...

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..This paper is a report of a study to develop a methodology that corrects nurse staffing for nursing care intensity in a way that allows nationwide benchmarking of nurse staffing data...

..Studies have linked nurse staffing levels (number and skill mix) to several nurse-sensitive patient outcomes. However, evidence from European countries has been limited...

..To assess the key variables used in research on nurse staffing and patient outcomes from the perspective of an international panel...

..The aim of this article was to assess the relationship between (1) in-hospital mortality and/or (2) unplanned readmission to intensive care units or operating theatre and nurse staffing variables...

..Striking variation exists in the risk-adjusted adverse outcome rates across Belgian acute hospitals, revealing a large potential for quality gains that encourage further action...

..The fourth phase (January 2005-December 2005) is presently focusing on information management. Nationwide implementation is foreseen by January 2007...

..Data collected in nurse staffing and patient safety are often multilevel in structure, requiring statistical techniques to account for clustering in the data...

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..Arguments include the availability of a nursing minimum dataset and the adverse consequences of the current historically based nursing weight system...

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..It was developed for the measurement of nursing care in acute hospitals. It is used to support healthcare management & policy decision making such as hospital financing and nurse staffing decisions...

..To develop the revised Belgian nursing minimum data set (B-NMDS)...

..To assess whether the Belgian Hospital Discharge Dataset (B-HDDS) is a valid source for the detection of adverse events in acute hospitals...

..One major obstacle to bridging this knowledge-to-action gap is data availability. We propose using large-scale hospital administrative data combined with the latest evidence-based methods as part of the solution to this problem...

..The aim of this paper is to describe how the B-NMDS can contribute to each of these applications...

..With poor prognosis and disabling symptomatology high-grade gliomas affect not only the patient but also the family...

..The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire is a validated, widely used instrument to investigate multiple dimensions of safety climate at the clinical level in a variety of inpatient and outpatient settings...

..Accurate insight into toxicity symptoms during chemotherapy is essential so that nurses and doctors can assess therapeutic tolerance and adjust supportive care accordingly...