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  • Title: Measuring nursing intensity in ambulatory care. Part I: Approaches to and uses of patient classification systems.
    Author: Prescott PA, Soeken KL.
    Journal: Nurs Econ; 1996; 14(1):14-21, 33. PubMed ID: 8700244.
    Abstract:
    Part I of this two-part series summarizes medical and nursing approaches to patient classification in ambulatory care. The conceptual basis for the Patient Intensity for Nursing: Ambulatory Care (PINAC) also is described as are important contemporary uses of data from Patient Classification Systems (PCS). Part two of this series, which will appear in the March/April 1996 issue, will present data on the reliability and validity of the PINAC.
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