Midnight census revisited: Reliability of patient day measurements in US hospital units
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TL;DR
Assessment of five patient day reporting methods accepted by the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators found overall agreement between routine data and the quasi-gold standard was excellent, but two methods underestimated patient days and an interaction between the degrees of short stay patients and one of the data collection methods also affected patient day measurement.
Abstract
Overall agreement between routine data and the quasi-gold standard was excellent (ICC [95% CI]: 0.967 [0.958-0.974]). A Bayesian regression analysis identified that two methods underestimated patient days and an interaction between the degrees of short stay patients and one of the data collection methods also affected patient day measurement by up to 7.6%.