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Clin Intensive Care · Jan 1992
Comparative StudyPhysician and nursing (personnel) requirements for ICUs. Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System (TISS) versus time requirements for patient care--a comparative study in an interdisciplinary surgical intensive care unit.
- W Dick, S Pehl, I Tzanova, W Heinrichs, F Brost, and P Eich.
- Clinic of Anaesthesiology, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany.
- Clin Intensive Care. 1992 Jan 1; 3 (3): 116-21.
ObjectiveTo measure total physician manoeuvres and total nursing manoeuvres in intensive care patients and to compare the results with calculated personnel requirements on the basis of TISS scores.DesignOpen prospective study.SettingSixty-three ICU patients on two consecutive days.Measurement1. Total physician activities (TPM) in minutes/patient-day; total nursing manoeuvres (TNM) in min/patient-day. 2. TISS Calculation of personnel requirements on the basis of both parameters.ResultsTPM averaged at 3.9 hours. No fixed correlation was established between TISS and TPM. TNM averaged 1,073 minutes/patient-day and demonstrated a good correlation with TISS.ConclusionsPhysician activities on a surgical ICU averaged 3.9 hours/patient-day. Nursing manoeuvres average 17.9 hours/patient-day. Individual measurements must be made before calculating personnel requirements on the basis of TISS scores.
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