作者
Konstantinos Giakoumidakis, George I Baltopoulos, Christos Charitos, Evridiki Patelarou, Nikolaos V Fotos, Hero Brokalaki-Pananoudaki
发表日期
2012/3/1
期刊
European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing
卷号
11
期号
1
页码范围
25-33
出版商
Oxford University Press
简介
Background
Mortality is an important healthcare index for assessing the quality and the effectiveness of the provided nursing care.
Aim
The aim of this study was to identify the risk factors for increased in-hospital mortality among cardiac surgery patients.
Methods
We followed up prospectively 313 consecutive patients who were admitted to the cardiac surgery intensive care unit (ICU) of a general, tertiary hospital in Athens during a 1 year period. Data collection was performed by using a short questionnaire and two instruments, the Nursing Activities Score (NAS) and the logistic EuroSCORE for assessing the nursing workload (NWL) and the perioperative risk for each patient respectively.
Results
Patients with a high 1st day NAS had an almost 3.3 times greater probability of death during their hospitalization (OR 3.3, 95%CI 1.4–8 …
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