Time- Nurses, Hospital
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Domain
Defining Attributes
Definition
Thinking about all the nurses you have seen at a hospital in the last 12 months, how often did they spend enough time with you- was it always, often, sometimes, rarely or never? Answer options: always, often, sometimes, rarely, never, didn't see any doctors or specialists.
Numerator
A subset of the denominator that represents patients aged 16 and older who responded to questions regarding amount of time spent with nurses within a hospital setting
Denominator
Patients aged 16 and older who responded to questions regarding amount of time spent with nurses within an hospital setting.
Exclusions
Australian permanent defence force members and their dependants, non-Australian defence forces, residents of the Indigenous Community Strata, persons living in non-private dwellings such as hotels, university residences, boarding schools, hospitals, nursing homes, homes for people with disabilities, and prisons.