Nurse staffing and patient safety in acute hospitals: Cassandra calls again?
Nurse staffing and patient safety in acute hospitals: Cassandra calls again?
The risk of adverse patient outcomes,including death, is lower in hospitals thatprovide more registered nurses to carefor patients on inpatient wards. The association has been demonstrated in a bodyof evidence comprising several hundredstudies, involving hundreds of hospitals andmillions of patients from around the world.The association has been shown at hospitallevel in large cross-sectional studies and ina growing number of longitudinal studiesexamining the effect of variation in staffingexperienced by individuals.1–3 In the contextof such an extensive body of evidence, onemight ask what could possibly be left todiscover?
Health services research, Mortality (standardised mortality ratios), Nurses, Patient safety
:241–243.
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
(2022)
Nurse staffing and patient safety in acute hospitals: Cassandra calls again?
BMJ Quality and Safety, 2023 (32), .
(doi:10.1136/bmjqs-2022-015578).
Abstract
The risk of adverse patient outcomes,including death, is lower in hospitals thatprovide more registered nurses to carefor patients on inpatient wards. The association has been demonstrated in a bodyof evidence comprising several hundredstudies, involving hundreds of hospitals andmillions of patients from around the world.The association has been shown at hospitallevel in large cross-sectional studies and ina growing number of longitudinal studiesexamining the effect of variation in staffingexperienced by individuals.1–3 In the contextof such an extensive body of evidence, onemight ask what could possibly be left todiscover?
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Accepted/In Press date: 9 November 2022
e-pub ahead of print date: 6 December 2022
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This study was funded by NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (Wessex).
Keywords:
Health services research, Mortality (standardised mortality ratios), Nurses, Patient safety
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/473272
ISSN: 2044-5415
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