Nurse staffing and patient care costs in acute inpatient nursing units

Medical Care

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 708-715

  Li, Yu Fang ^a,b,c   Wong, Edwin S ^a,c   Sales, Anne E ^d   Sharp, Nancy D ^a,d   Needleman, Jack ^e   MacIejewski, Matthew L ^f,g   Lowy, Elliott ^a,d   Alt White, Anna C ^h   Liu, Chuan Fen ^a,d  

^a VA PUGET SOUND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b Safety Analytic Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d VA Inpatient Evaluation Center   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

Author keywords

health care costs; length of stay; mortality; nurse staffing; patient outcomes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPENDENT VARIABLE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NURSING CARE; NURSING COST; NURSING STAFF; NURSING UNIT; PATIENT CARE COST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKILL MIX; SURGICAL WARD; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VETERANS HEALTH;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITAL UNITS; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING SERVICE, HOSPITAL; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79961038690     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: 15371948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e318223a9f1     Document Type: Article

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