Nurse productivity measures for the 21st century.

Health Care Manage Rev

Ivy Tech State College, Evansville, IN, USA.

Published: July 2004

The concept and measurement of nurses' productivity ranges from traditional economic interpretation of nurses as labor costs to human capital theory interpretation of nurses as intellectual capital assets.

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