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3099953

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6561
pubmed:dateCreated
1987-3-19
pubmed:abstractText
A survey of medical staffing in 50 adult dialysis units in the United Kingdom in 1986 showed a wide range of patient to staff ratios or staffing score ratios. The total patient load (patients receiving haemodialysis in hospital and at home and those receiving continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis) varied from 12 to 270 per unit. Patients receiving acute haemodialysis or who had received a transplant were not included. The unit staffing score, on a weighted scale based on experience, varied from 6.0 to 40.5. Previous surveys have all been regionally or nationally based so criteria for assessing the adequacy of staffing in single units do not exist. This survey attempts to provide a guideline by describing the range of medical staffing compared with patient load in single dialysis units. No unit considered itself to be overstaffed, and several considered themselves to be greatly understaffed. Individual dialysis units should plead their own case in the light of their own circumstances and up to date information provided in nationwide staffing surveys such as this one.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0267-0623
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
13
pubmed:volume
293
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1545-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1986
pubmed:articleTitle
Patient load and medical staffing in adult dialysis units in the United Kingdom.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article