Your hospital is using the Clinical Value Compass to determine quality. The hospital would most likely include which of the following indicators related to clinical status? Select all that apply
a. Mortality d. Morbidity
b. Direct cost e. Infection rate
c. Indirect cost f. Staffing cost
A, D, E
Using a Clinical Value Compass, indicators related to clinical status would include mortality,
morbidity, and infection rate. Other indicators would include incidence of nursing sensitive outcomes
such as cardiac arrest. Direct, indirect, and staffing are indicators of cost and not of clinical status.
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