Carers' satisfaction was measured on 10 dimensions of care (overall, admission, car parking, nutrition, medical management, being kept informed, dignity and respect, meeting the needs of a confused patient, discharge arrangements, timing of discharge) with Likert scales (very/mostly satisfied, mostly/very dissatisfied; items taken from an Alzheimer's Society report on acute hospital care 10).
These information needs covered all six dimensions: patient admission, organisation and management of work, allocation of staff resources, allocation of material resources, special treatments, and patient discharge (Table 2).
Information need statements were divided into six dimensions: patient admission, organisation and management of work, allocation of staff and material resources, special treatments, and patient discharge.
Sum-variables were constructed from the above-mentioned six dimensions of daily ICU activity (patient admission, organisation and management of work, allocation of staff, allocation of material resources, special treatments and patient discharge).
The patients showed statistically significantly improved average scores at admission on the dimensions of moving (P = 0.026), sleeping (P = 0.004) and discomfort and symptoms (P = 0.041), but not in the overall 15D score compared with the baseline.
We found significant differences in its predictive value between the MELD at the time of admission and at the time-point of its biggest dimension.
Reuse of current achievements in the field of admission control is made possible by exploiting the orthogonality, which exists between the time dimension and the resource plane.
The COPS consists of six quality dimensions: "Admission"/"Reception" (2 or 3 items), "Nursing care" (2 items), "Medical care" (2 items), "Information" (4 items), "Autonomy" (2 or 3 items) and "Discharge and aftercare" (2 or 3 items).
