Effects of nurse staffing on hospital-acquired conditions and length of stay in community hospitals

Quality Management in Health Care

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 147-155

  Frith, Karen H ^a   Anderson, E Faye ^a   Caspers, Barbara ^b   Tseng, Fan ^a   Sanford, Kathleen ^b   Hoyt, Nancy G ^c   Moore, Kim ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^b National Nursing Services   (United States)

^c Mercy Regional Medical Center   (United States)

^d Saint Elizabeth Regional Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute care; Adverse health care event; Hierarchical linear modeling; Hospital; Length of stay; Nurse staff; Patient safety

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; CROSS INFECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DATA BASE; HUMAN; INFANT; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING STAFF; POLICY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS INFECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATABASES AS TOPIC; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PUBLIC POLICY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950275103     PISSN: 10638628     EISSN: 15505154     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QMH.0b013e3181dafe3f     Document Type: Article

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