A comparison of in-hospital mortality risk conferred by high hospital occupancy, differences in nurse staffing levels, weekend admission, and seasonal influenza

Medical Care

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 224-232

  Schilling, Peter L ^a,b   Campbell, Darrell A ^a   Englesbe, Michael J ^a   Davis, Matthew M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Hospital occupancy; Hospital overcrowding,emergency room overcrowding; Influenza mortality; Nurse staffing levels; Weekend admission

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG ABUSE; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GENDER; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HIP FRACTURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INFLUENZA; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER DISEASE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG DISEASE; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NURSING STAFF; OBESITY; PARALYSIS; PEPTIC ULCER; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOLID TUMOR; STROKE; TRICUSPID VALVE DISEASE; UNITED STATES; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BED OCCUPANCY; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEASONS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77649126370     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e3181c162c0     Document Type: Article

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