Nursing Diagnoses as Predictors of Hospital Length of Stay: A Prospective Observational Study

Purpose To investigate whether the number of nursing diagnoses on hospital admission is an independent predictor of the hospital length of stay. Design A prospective observational study was carried out. A sample of 2,190 patients consecutively admitted (from July to December 2014) in four inpatient units (two medical, two surgical) of a 1,547‐bed university hospital were enrolled for the study. Methods Data were collected from a clinical nursing...