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Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System

Each of the most common ICU nursing activities is weighted from 1 to 4 point. More points indicate that greater nursing management is required.

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As LKolesar points out, there is variation in how the TISS is collected in different centers. Is this something we should look at? Ttenbergen 00:04, 27 May 2008 (CDT)

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-==Use==
-* TISS is utilized in the USA, Canada and abroad for many purposes:
-*#  Determining severity of illness (NOTE: this capability of TISS has lost its application with the appearance of more specific scoring systems in the 1980).
-*#  Establishing nurse-patient ratios in the ICU
-*#  Assessing current utilization of ICU beds
-*#  Establishing future needs and numbers of ICU beds
-*#  Expresses work activities in statistical terms.
-* TISS has been incorporated as an integral part of the Acute Physiologic and Chronic Health Evaluation [[:Category:APACHE II|APACHE II]]
-* The comparative scores of TISS and APACHE enables us to see ''trends'' in the type of nursing care (TISS) provided for certain acuity levels (APACHE), for a specific type of diagnosis.
+==Points==
-* Reviewing both scores can help determine whether certain nursing activities can be redirected or standardized in certain types of critically ill patients without affecting patient mortality or morbidity.
-==Scoring==
 * Each of the most common ICU nursing activities is weighted from 1 to 4 point. More points indicate that greater nursing management is required.