The relationship between in-hospital mortality, readmission into the intensive care nursing unit and/or operating theatre and nurse staffing levels

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1073-1081

  Diya, Luwis ^a,b   Van den Heede, Koen ^a   Sermeus, Walter ^a   Lesaffre, Emmanuel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; Multilevel analysis; Nurse staffing; Patient safety; Posterior predictive checks

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BELGIUM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MANPOWER; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NURSING; NURSING STAFF; OPERATING ROOM; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BAYES THEOREM; BELGIUM; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; OPERATING ROOMS; PATIENT READMISSION; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84858864624     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: 13652648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2011.05812.x     Document Type: Article

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