 Hospital Units
"Hospital Units" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Those areas of the hospital organization not considered departments which provide specialized patient care. They include various hospital special care wards.
| Descriptor ID |
D006757
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N02.278.388
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| Concept/Terms |
Hospital Units- Hospital Units
- Hospital Unit
- Unit, Hospital
- Units, Hospital
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Hospital Units" by people in this website by year, and whether "Hospital Units" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2016 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Hospital Units" by people in Profiles.
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Turner K, Staggs VS, Potter C, Cramer E, Shorr RI, Mion LC. Fall Prevention Practices and Implementation Strategies: Examining Consistency Across Hospital Units. J Patient Saf. 2022 01 01; 18(1):e236-e242.
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Turner K, Bjarnadottir R, Jo A, Repique RJR, Thomas J, Green JF, Staggs VS. Patient Falls and Injuries in U.S. Psychiatric Care: Incidence and Trends. Psychiatr Serv. 2020 09 01; 71(9):899-905.
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Staggs VS, Cramer E. Can Nursing Units With High Fall Rates Be Identified Using One Year of Data? Reliability of Fall Rates As a Function of the Number of Quarters on Which They Are Based. Res Nurs Health. 2017 Feb; 40(1):80-87.
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Staggs VS, Cramer E. Reliability of Pressure Ulcer Rates: How Precisely Can We Differentiate Among Hospital Units, and Does the Standard Signal-Noise Reliability Measure Reflect This Precision? Res Nurs Health. 2016 08; 39(4):298-305.
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Staggs VS. Reported Versus Actual Assault Rates: In Reply. Psychiatr Serv. 2016 Mar; 67(3):358-9.
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Staggs VS. Correlates of Licensed and Unlicensed Nurse Staffing Levels on Inpatient Psychiatric Units. J Nurs Care Qual. 2015 Oct-Dec; 30(4):359-65.
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Staggs VS. Trends in Use of Seclusion and Restraint in Response to Injurious Assault in Psychiatric Units in U.S. Hospitals, 2007-2013. Psychiatr Serv. 2015 Dec 01; 66(12):1369-72.
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Staggs VS. Injurious Assault Rates on Inpatient Psychiatric Units: Associations With Staffing by Registered Nurses and Other Nursing Personnel. Psychiatr Serv. 2015 Nov; 66(11):1162-6.
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Staggs VS, Mion LC, Shorr RI. Consistent differences in medical unit fall rates: implications for research and practice. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2015 May; 63(5):983-7.
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Staggs VS, Davidson J, Dunton N, Crosser B. Challenges in defining and categorizing falls on diverse unit types: lessons from expansion of the NDNQI Falls Indicator. J Nurs Care Qual. 2015 Apr-Jun; 30(2):106-12.
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