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Eugenia Larjow1, Tobias Lingner2
1Department of Health Care Management, Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research, Health Sciences, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany.
Aim:
To compare recent compliance cost estimates by nurses of German nursing homes who employ the new documentation approach structural model with those who use traditional documentation frameworks.
Design:
A cross-sectional survey.
Methods:
For each documentation approach, five sub-processes were surveyed employing standard activities. The postal and online surveys were based on the same self-administered questionnaire. The measures addressed time investments and further costs to carry out the components of nursing documentation. Data were collected from a convenience sample of nurses (n = 264) from German nursing homes between October 2018 and June 2019.
Results:
The analysed sub-processes consume between 26 min and 8 hr per fulfilment. For users of the structural model, collecting information on a new admission is the costliest part of the documentation, at €90 per case. For users of other documentation approaches, care planning requires the most expensive effort, at €130 per case.
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