Patent ID: 8543412

Claim:
A system operated over an electronic network for surveying nursing quality of nursing units at multiple healthcare facilities, comprising: A database configured to store information received from multiple healthcare facilities; and a Web server, configured to transmit at least one question relating to a nursing quality indicator to at least one staff member of a first nursing unit of a first healthcare facility via a first Web client and to at least one staff member of a second nursing unit of a second healthcare facility via a second Web client, receive a first data element in response to the at least one question presented to the at least one staff member of the first nursing unit, a first unit type, and a first identifier from the first Web client, and a second data element in response to the at least one question presented to the at least one staff member of the second nursing unit, a second unit type, and a second identifier from the second Web client, save the first data element, the first unit type, the first identifier, the second data element, the second unit type, and the second identifier in the database, determine if the first unit type and the second unit type are substantially the same type, and if the first unit type and the second unit type are determined to be substantially the same type, perform a comparison of the first data element and the second data element stored in the database and organize results of the comparison based on unit type and healthcare facility, and transmit results from the Web server to a third Web client.