Are Staffing, Work Environment, Work Stressors, and Rationing of Care Related to Care Workers' Perception of Quality of Care? A Cross-Sectional Study

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 860-866

  Zúñiga, Franziska ^a   Ausserhofer, Dietmar ^a,b   Hamers, Jan P H ^c   Engberg, Sandra ^a,d   Simon, Michael ^a,e   Schwendimann, René ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b Research Department   (Italy)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Nursing homes; Quality of health care; Rationing of care; Staffing; Work environment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; JOB STRESS; LANGUAGE; LEADERSHIP; LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSE; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NURSE WORKING INDEX; NURSING ASSISTANT; NURSING CARE; NURSING HOME; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PRACTICE ENVIRONMENT SCALE; REHABILITATION CARE; SOCIAL CARE; TEAMWORK; TURNOVER TIME; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORKLOAD; CLINICAL TRIAL; ETIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; MANPOWER; MENTAL STRESS; ORGANIZATION; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; STATISTICAL MODEL; SWITZERLAND;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NURSING HOMES; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PATIENT SAFETY; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWITZERLAND; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84944178190     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2015.04.012     Document Type: Article

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