WELCOME to the Cost2care Project website 

Cost2care is a four-year research project funded by the Health Research Board (HRB) which is based in the School of Nursing, Psychotherapy and Community Health at DCU. This study recognises the importance of nursing care in the patient safety continuum and reflects the reality that where nursing care is missed or incomplete, patient outcomes are less favourable overall. Cost2care recognises that the quality and safety of nursing care is an important determinant of patient outcome following hospitalisation.

The purpose of the COST2CARE project is to demonstrate the potential for safer hospital care, and reduced healthcare costs associated with older patients in acute hospitals in Ireland, through routine measurement of missed nursing care, and sustainable and accurate reporting of nursing-sensitive adverse events using routinely collected hospital discharge data.