[Assessment of quality of nursing prescriptions in public teaching hospital]
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Published on: June 21, 2010
Gelena Lucinéia Gomes da Silva Versa1, Ana Yassuko Murassaki, Larissa Gutierrez da Silva
1Hospital Universitário do Oeste do Paraná, Cascavel-Paraná (PR). Brasil. gelenaenfermagem@yahoo.com.br
Abstract:
A multicenter, cross-sectional study took place from December 2009 to June 2010 and aimed to assess the quality of Nursing Prescription (NP) in two public teaching hospitals. The sample consisted of 1,307 NP and data were processed using the G-test and chi-square. The determination of the quality of NP was based on the classification indices reported in literature. Among the results, 1,083 (82.8%) correct and appropriate NP, 154 (11.8%) inadequate NP and 52 (3.9%) incomplete NP were found. In 18 (1.37%) patient charts, the NP was nonexistent. There was statistic signficance (alpha < 0.05) for incomplete and absent NP between the two hospitals (0.00), as well as inappropriate NP between age groups (0.03). It was concluded that, in the hospitals under study, the NP needs to be improved both in terms of quantity and quality.
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