1.
JAMA Intern Med
; 176(1): 113-5, 2016 Jan.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-26571234
2.
Am J Infect Control
; 43(10): 1112-3, 2015 Oct 01.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-26190387
RESUMO
The task-oriented nurse acuity system (TONAS) has long been used to calculate nursing care needs on hospital patient units, and include nursing documentation on indwelling urinary catheter use. We performed a 2500-patient validation study of our organization's TONAS, which demonstrated high interrater reliability with manual audits (κ >0.92). For institutions that continue to rely on manual surveillance of urinary catheter use, a TONAS may represent a reliable method of automated surveillance.