Application research of patient-related structure indexes on nursing quality index system

Objective To explore and establish patient-related structure indexes and then analyze its role in the nursing quality evaluation. Methods By purposive sampling method, we selected Beijing nursing experts to expound and prove for primary construction of related indexes, selected 9 surgery departments in a Beijing general hospital by convenient sampling method, collected patients′ related index data, assessment data of nursing quality and configure data, and analyzed the relationship between patients′ related construction indexes and nursing quality. Results The expounding and proving by experts determined the days of patients hospitalization, the days of special nursing, nursing case times of operation per nurse averagely, oral nursing per nurse averagely and so on 9 constructed indexes clauses. The correlation analysis presented that 9 patients′ related index had relationship with the score of nursing quality(P<0.05). Conclusions Patient-related structure indexes can influence nursing quality. The study proposed that we can add the indexes to nursing quality index system in order to improve comparability and objectivity. Key words: Nursing management; Quality evaluation; Quality index