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Current COLMR Projects
Nursing Database Development
The goals of this project are to develop a pilot database of nurse staffing and nursing-sensitive patient outcome measures at the patient care unit level in 12 VAMCs. The project will develop and test a standardized methodology to collect data related to nurse-sensitive indicators of quality and staffing. The purpose of this effort is for benchmarking and comparing local, VISN, and national patient quality outcomes. A database of clinically relevant, comparable quality indicators will support strategic decision support through timely internal and external benchmarking, expedite testing and evaluation of interventions to define evidence-based nursing practices, and to impact health care policy decisions.
The project is an HSR&D management consultation Cathy Rick, VA Chief Nursing Officer, to address Goal 6 of the strategic plan the VA Nursing Strategic Health Group. It is an extension of the work and methods developed by the California Nursing Outcomes Coalition.
Co-Principal Investigators: Anne Sales (Seattle HSR&D Center of Excellence) and Martin Charns (MDRC). Also participating from MDRC: Mark Meterko, Gary Young and David Mohr.
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