Mairead Furlong, Colm McGuinness, Christine Marie Mulligan, Sharon Lisa McGarr, Sinead McGilloway
Family Talk versus usual services in improving child and family psychosocial functioning in families with parental mental illness: a randomised controlled trial and cost analysis
Frontiers in psychiatry
accurate reliable patient classification system pcs help inform decisions regarding adequate assignments nurse staffing study aimed evaluate criterion validity asan patient classification system apcs new tertiary hospitalspecific pcs comparing rating total scores kpcs1 kpcsgw measuring patient activity nursing needs performed retrospective analysis medical records 50314 inpatients admitted general wards tertiary teaching hospital seoul south korea march june september december 2019 spearmans correlation kappa statistics according quartiles calculated examine criterion validity apcs compared kpcs1 kpcsgw average patient classification score 283 points apcs 257 points kpcs1 216 points kpcsgw kappa value apcs kpcs1 091 95 ci09072 09119 apcs kpcsgw 088 95 ci08757 08810 additionally spearmans correlation coefficients among apcs kpcs1 kpcsgw showed strong correlation however 108 participants results inconsistent kpcs1 tended classify patients groups lower nursing needs compared apcs study showed electronic health recordgenerated apcs provide useful information patients severity nursing activities measure workload estimation additional research needed develop implement realworld ehrbased pcs system accommodate direct indirect nursing care considering diverse population dynamic healthcare system