Patient load and medical staffing in adult dialysis units in the United Kingdom
| Autor: | W K Stewart, L W Fleming |
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| Rok vydání: | 1986 |
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Medical staff
medicine.medical_treatment Statistics as Topic Personnel Staffing and Scheduling Staffing Personnel Management Patient Load Medical Staff Hospital medicine Humans General Environmental Science business.industry Data Collection Continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis General Engineering General Medicine Guideline medicine.disease United Kingdom Hemodialysis Units Hospital Workforce Dialysis unit General Earth and Planetary Sciences Hemodialysis Medical emergency business Hospital Units Research Article |
| Zdroj: | BMJ. 293:1545-1548 |
| ISSN: | 1468-5833 0959-8138 |
| DOI: | 10.1136/bmj.293.6561.1545 |
| Popis: | A survey of medical staffing in 50 adult dialysis units in the United Kingdom in 1986 showed a wide range of patient to staff ratios or staffing score ratios. The total patient load (patients receiving haemodialysis in hospital and at home and those receiving continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis) varied from 12 to 270 per unit. Patients receiving acute haemodialysis or who had received a transplant were not included. The unit staffing score, on a weighted scale based on experience, varied from 6.0 to 40.5. Previous surveys have all been regionally or nationally based so criteria for assessing the adequacy of staffing in single units do not exist. This survey attempts to provide a guideline by describing the range of medical staffing compared with patient load in single dialysis units. No unit considered itself to be overstaffed, and several considered themselves to be greatly understaffed. Individual dialysis units should plead their own case in the light of their own circumstances and up to date information provided in nationwide staffing surveys such as this one. |
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