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- Barbara B Brewer.
- Clarion Health Partners, Indianapolis, IN, USA. bbrewe@jcl.com
- Nurs Adm Q. 2006 Oct 1;30(4):351-7.
PurposeTo test the feasibility of using patient acuity indicators as proxy measures for the AACN Synergy Model for Patient Care patient characteristics.Design And MethodsSecondary data analysis of a convenience sample of 481 patient ratings from adult and pediatric critical and noncritical medical surgical patients.FindingsCombining dichotomous patient acuity indicators into multilevel categorical variables allowed evaluation of linear relationships between acuity and patient characteristics indicators. Of the 8 patient characteristics, only participation in care exhibited meaningful correlations with the acuity indicators. According to these findings, acuity indicators should not be substituted for the Synergy Model patient characteristics.
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