Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant Staffing and Critical Care Mortality

Guidance for nurse staffing in critical care.

Nurse staffing, medical staffing and mortality in Intensive Care: An observational study.

OBJECTIVES To investigate whether the size of the workforce (nurses, doctors and support staff) has an impact on the survival chances of critically ill patients both in the intensive care unit (ICU) and in the hospital. BACKGROUND Investigations of intensive care outcomes suggest that some of the variation in patient survival rates might be related to staffing levels and workload, but the evi...

Nurse staffing and inpatient hospital mortality.

BACKGROUND Cross-sectional studies of hospital-level administrative data have shown an association between lower levels of staffing of registered nurses (RNs) and increased patient mortality. However, such studies have been criticized because they have not shown a direct link between the level of staffing and individual patient experiences and have not included sufficient statistical controls. ...

Hospital nurse staffing, education, and patient mortality.

A serious shortage of hospital nurses in the U.S., evident in the past decade, is expected to continue and worsen in the next 15 years. Increasingly, the public and the health professions are acknowledging that nurse understaffing represents a serious threat to patient safety in U.S. hospitals. Although anecdotal evidence has linked patient deaths to inadequate nurse staffing, the numbers and k...

Nurse Staffing and Inpatient Hospital Mortality

From the Department of Health Services, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health, Los Angeles ( J.N.); Vanderbilt University, Nashville (P.B.); Mayo Clinic Department of Health Sciences Research, Rochester, MN (V.S.P., C.L.L., M.H.); and Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC (S.R.S.). Address reprint requests to Dr. Harris at the Mayo...