Patient classification systems: A new approach to computing reliability

A data-integrated simulation-based optimization for assigning nurses to patient admissions

“…Bard and Purnomo [3] formulated and solved the nurse scheduling problem as a multi-objective problem which considered individual nurse's preference. In the past couple of decades, several patient classification systems and acuity systems were developed to aid determination of nursing care, staffing level, and schedule ahead of a shift [7,8,16,23,28,36,50]. It has to be noted that four levels of acuity were considered in this research depending upon the amount of care received by the patients in the north Texas hospital.…”

Nurse management systems in the context of district nursing: the case of rural Australia

“…Whilst Martin and Scheet (1992) argue that their research proves that the system will provide reliable and valid data, other researchers (Bigbee et al 1992) contend that familiarity in the use of any patient classification system leads to operator error. Bigbee et al (1992) argue for a 4-monthly cycle of nursing audit and education, to ensure that the nurses assess and record the client's expressed demands for care accurately. This, in turn, suggests that it is the nurses' expertise in carrying out the ratings and the managers' proper use of the resultant data which determine the value of the system.…”