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Table 2 The availability of the patient health and service outcomes for evaluation in each of the seven specialty units included in the analysis

From: The impact on patient health and service outcomes of introducing nurse consultants: a historically matched controlled study

   

Specialty unit

  

Patient health and service outcomes

Diabetes A (n=40)

Diabetes B (n=40)

Renal A (n=40)

Renal B (n=40)

Wound & stoma care (n=40)

Psychiatrics (n=40)

Continence (n=40)

Service outcomes

       

Number of Accident & Emergency visits

Number of hospital admissions

Length of hospital stay

Number of acute complications

Number of times of treatment / medication regimen altered by nurses according to patients’ condition

Health outcomes

       

HbA1c level

Urea level

Urea creatinine ratio

Number of dressings for wound healed

  1. –: not available.