Nurse staffing and medication errors: Cross-sectional or longitudinal relationships?

Research in Nursing and Health

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 18-30

  Mark, Barbara A ^a   Belyea, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Medication errors; Methodology; Nurse staffing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MEDICATION ERROR; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NURSING ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MEDICATION ERRORS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NURSING ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 59649107292     PISSN: 01606891     EISSN: 1098240X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nur.20305     Document Type: Article

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