Patients' functioning as predictor of nursing workload in acute hospital units providing rehabilitation care: a multi-centre cohort study

Table 2 Summary of considered formulas to estimate total nursing workload: A higher coefficient indicates that the estimate corresponds more closely to the actual sum of workload.

Model	with intercept		without intercept
	Coef.	Rsquared	Coef.	Rsquared
I) total LEP ^a ~ LEP (Day 1) * LOS ^b	0,56	0,75	0,62	0,85
II) total LEP ~ LEP (Last Day) * LOS	0,93	0,38	1,2	0,61
III) total LEP ~ Mean(LEP(Day 1, Last Day)) * LOS	0,93	0,82	0,96	0,9

Results were based on the data available at the USZ. Total LEP was calculated as the sum of the daily LEP minutes.
^a LEP = nursing workload in LEP minutes, ^b LOS = Length of stay

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