Marga Hoogendoorn

26 Results search strategy Figure 1 shows a PRISMA flow chart with the results of the literature search strategy. Starting with 1840 unique articles we finally we included 71 articles for analysis. Among these 71 included articles, 30 articles reported on the development of a scoring system to measure the amount of nursing care. Nineteen articles (also) reported on reliability of an existing scoring system. Fourty four articles reported (also) on validation of a scoring system. In total 17 articles reported (also) on the validation of the translation of the measured nursing time into a Nurse:Patient-ratio for calculation of the need for nursing staff. Figure 1. Flow chart of included and excluded articles