Nurse-Staffing Levels and the Quality of Care in Hospitals

Volume: 346, Issue: 22, Pages: 1715 - 1722
Published: May 30, 2002
Abstract
Background It is uncertain whether lower levels of staffing by nurses at hospitals are associated with an increased risk that patients will have complications or die. Methods We used administrative data from 1997 for 799 hospitals in 11 states (covering 5,075,969 discharges of medical patients and 1,104,659 discharges of surgical patients) to examine the relation between the amount of care provided by nurses at the hospital and patients'...
Paper Details
Title
Nurse-Staffing Levels and the Quality of Care in Hospitals
Published Date
May 30, 2002
Volume
346
Issue
22
Pages
1715 - 1722
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