Quality of nursing documentation and approaches to its evaluation: a mixed-method systematic review.

@article{Wang2011QualityON,
  title={Quality of nursing documentation and approaches to its evaluation: a mixed-method systematic review.},
  author={Ning Wang and David Hailey and Robert Yu},
  journal={Journal of advanced nursing},
  year={2011},
  volume={67 9},
  pages={
          1858-75
        }
}
AIMS This paper reports a review that identified and synthesized nursing documentation audit studies, with a focus on exploring audit approaches, identifying audit instruments and describing the quality status of nursing documentation. [] Key MethodDATA SOURCES Searches were made of seven electronic databases. The keywords 'nursing documentation', 'audit', 'evaluation', 'quality', both singly and in combination, were used to identify articles published in English between 2000 and 2010.
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