TY - GEN AU - Sermeus, Walter AU - Aiken, Linda H AU - Van den Heede, Koen AU - Rafferty, Anne Marie AU - Griffiths, Peter AU - Moreno-Casbas, Teresa AU - Busse, Reinhard AU - Lindqvist, Rikard AU - Scott, Anne P AU - Bruyneel, Luk AU - Brzostek, Tomasz AU - Kinnunen, Juha AU - Schubert, Maria AU - Schoonhoven, Lisette AU - Zikos, Dimitrios PY - 2011 DO - 10.1186/1472-6955-10-6 SN - 1472-6955 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12105/7861 AB - BACKGROUND: Current human resources planning models in nursing are unreliable and ineffective as they consider volumes, but ignore effects on quality in patient care. The project RN4CAST aims innovative forecasting methods by addressing not only... LA - eng PB - BioMed Central (BMC) KW - Patient Level Data KW - Workforce Planning KW - Nursing Unit KW - Nursing Workforce KW - Staffing Level TI - Nurse forecasting in Europe (RN4CAST): Rationale, design and methodology TY - research article ER -