[The Concept of Missed Care: a Literature Review]
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Aim: To describe the concept and consequences of missed nursing care.
Methods: A literature review was conducted searching on Medline, Trip Database, Cinahl, Cochrane, with the following key words: missed care, missed nursing care.
Results: Any needed nursing intervention omitted (totally or in part) or postponed is considered missed care. The causes of missed care are the scarcity of human resources, of equipment or communication, but also the criteria for setting priorities and the relationships with nurses aids may also have an impact. The missed care may be measured with the Misscare tool: those more frequently missed are deambulation, passive mobilization, hygiene and oral care. CONCLUSIONS. A description of the interventions omitted or only postponed at international level, a measurement of the variability of missed care according to the number of nurses, and their impact on patients'outcomed could improve a better understanding of this problem.
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