Association between nursing workload and mortality of intensive care unit patients

Journal of Nursing Scholarship

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 385-390

  Kiekkas, Panagiotis ^a,d   Sakellaropoulos, George C ^b   Brokalaki, Hero ^c   Manolis, Evangelos ^c   Samios, Adamantios ^a   Skartsani, Chrisula ^a   Baltopoulos, George I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Intensive care unit; Mortality; Nurse staffing; Nursing; Nursing workload; Patient acuity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NURSING STAFF; WORKLOAD;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; WORKLOAD;

EID: 56849122894     PISSN: 15276546     EISSN: 15475069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1547-5069.2008.00254.x     Document Type: Article

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