“…In retrospective analyses of 123,241 sequential patient admissions to a university hospital, it was shown that the length of stay, overall costs, and mortality rates were better explained adding ND to diagnosis-related groups (from 27.5% to 146.4%) (Welton & Halloran, 2005). In studies conducted in home care settings, the use of nursing diagnoses explained more than 40% of the variance of overall resource use (Lee & Mills, 2000;Morales-Asencio et al, 2009).…”