Improving patient safety by optimizing the use of nursing human resources

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• 作者：Christian M. Rochefort ; David L. Buckeridge ; Michal Abrahamowicz
• 关键词：Nurse staffing ; Adverse events ; Electronic health record ; Acute care hospital ; Survival analysis ; Longitudinal study
• 刊名：Implementation Science
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：December 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：10
• 期：1
• 全文大小：674 KB
• 刊物主题：Health Promotion and Disease Prevention; Health Administration; Health Informatics;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1748-5908

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Background Recent ecological studies have suggested that inadequate nurse staffing may contribute to the incidence of adverse events in acute care hospitals. However, longitudinal studies are needed to further examine these associations and to identify the staffing patterns that are of greatest risk. The aims of this study are to determine if (a) nurse staffing levels are associated with an increased risk of adverse events, (b) the risk of adverse events in relationship to nurse staffing levels is modified by the complexity of patient requirements, and (c) optimal nurse staffing levels can be established.