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Nurse Allocation by Computer

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Medical Informatics Berlin 1979

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics ((LNMED,volume 5))

Abstract

Nurse scheduling presents one of the most difficult and intractable problems in the area of manpower planning due to the difficulties of providing a reasonable mix of trained and untrained staff under the conditions of variable workloads and staff availability. Several methods have been developed for the purpose of measuring nursing workload (Barr et al, 1973). Most of these methods require patients to be classified into dependency groups based on a limited amount of information which diminishes their sensitivity as indices of nursing workload. Additionally they do not usually distinguish between basic and technical care except on the assumption that there is a constant proportional relationship between them.

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  1. Ward Computer Project, Tayside Area Health Board, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, Scotland

    C. R. Henney, R. Bosworth, I. Chrissafis & J. Crooks

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  1. C. R. Henney
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. North East Thames Regional Health Authority, 40, Eastbourne Terrace, London, W2 3QR, Great Britain

    B. Barber

  2. Département de Biophysique et de Biomathématiques, Université Paris VI, 91, boulevard de l’Hôpital, Paris 13ème, France

    F. Grémy

  3. Institut für Medizinische Informationsverarbeitung, Statistik und Biomathematik, Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität, Marchioninistr. 15, D-8000, München 70, Deutschland

    K. Ãœberla

  4. Institut für Dokumentation, Information und Statistik, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, D-6900, Heidelberg 1, Deutschland

    G. Wagner

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Henney, C.R., Bosworth, R., Chrissafis, I., Crooks, J. (1979). Nurse Allocation by Computer. In: Barber, B., Grémy, F., Überla, K., Wagner, G. (eds) Medical Informatics Berlin 1979. Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics, vol 5. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93120-8_24

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