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Shift work in hospitals: what are the effects on patient and employee outcomes?

Shift work in hospitals: what are the effects on patient and employee outcomes?
Shift work in hospitals: what are the effects on patient and employee outcomes?
The healthcare sector works around the clock and requires the availability of staff 24 hours a day. This means that shift work is an essential aspect of staffing hospital departments. However, concerns have been raised about the consequences of some shift patterns for both patient and staff. Although there is no “ideal” shift system, this brief reports on evidence of the effect of shift characteristics including the length of the shift, rotation and days off on patient and employee outcomes.
nursing administration research, shift length, shift work, health care quality, mortality, health service management
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Griffiths, Peter
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Dall'ora, Chiara
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Griffiths, Peter
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Dall'ora, Chiara
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Griffiths, Peter and Dall'ora, Chiara (2017) Shift work in hospitals: what are the effects on patient and employee outcomes? Evidence Brief, 2 (1), 1-2.

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Abstract

The healthcare sector works around the clock and requires the availability of staff 24 hours a day. This means that shift work is an essential aspect of staffing hospital departments. However, concerns have been raised about the consequences of some shift patterns for both patient and staff. Although there is no “ideal” shift system, this brief reports on evidence of the effect of shift characteristics including the length of the shift, rotation and days off on patient and employee outcomes.

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Published date: 28 February 2017
Keywords: nursing administration research, shift length, shift work, health care quality, mortality, health service management
Organisations: Leadership & Health Systems, Centre for Innovation & Leadership

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Local EPrints ID: 411692
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/411692
PURE UUID: 74b589dd-2d4a-4fbe-8507-ae711228536c
ORCID for Peter Griffiths: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-2439-2857
ORCID for Chiara Dall'ora: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-6858-3535

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Date deposited: 21 Jun 2017 16:33
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 04:33

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