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Nightingale: Notes on Hospitals

Contribution grade

Epidemiology and public health · EMPIRICAL

Reference score90,000Provisional editorial estimate of this exact contribution; its grade is assessed separately.

What changed

Synthesized hospital construction and administration recommendations from observational evidence.

Scientific scope

The record is Nightingale's sole-author 1859 first edition, based on papers read in 1858 and evidence to the Royal Commission. It does not treat every recommendation as a modern randomized result or absorb her separate Notes on Nursing, statistical diagrams and institutional collaborators.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The record is Nightingale's sole-author 1859 first edition, based on papers read in 1858 and evidence to the Royal Commission. It does not treat every recommendation as a modern randomized result or absorb her separate Notes on Nursing, statistical diagrams and institutional collaborators.

Contributors

Provisional WRS assessment, edition 2026-10-16.1. Independent expert calibration is pending. This grade does not certify correctness or assign ownership.

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