Incorporating nursing complexity in reimbursement coding systems: the potential impact on missed care.

Loredana Sasso; Annamaria Bagnasco; Giuseppe Aleo; Gianluca Catania; Nicoletta Dasso; Milko P. Zanini; Roger Watson

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Incorporating nursing complexity in reimbursement coding systems: the potential impact on missed care.

October 25, 2017

Sasso L, Bagnasco A, Aleo G, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2017;26(11):929-932.

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Multiple factors in the hospital environment influence the incidence of missed nursing care. This commentary describes strategies to address these errors of omission, including changing mental models to recognize the financial benefit of increasing staffing levels to improve patient safety.

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