The Use of Electronic Health Record Metadata to Identify Nurse-Patient Assignments in the Intensive Care Unit: Algorithm Development and Validation.
Kathryn A RimanBillie S DavisJennifer B SeamanJeremy M KahnPublished in: JMIR medical informatics (2022)
Metadata from the EHR can accurately identify individual nurse-patient assignments in the ICU. This information enables novel studies of ICU nurse staffing at the individual nurse-patient level, which may provide further insights into how nurse staffing can be leveraged to improve patient outcomes.