Organization of Hospital Nursing, Provision of Nursing Care, and Patient Experiences with Care in Europe

Medical Care Research and Review

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 643-664

  Bruyneel, Luk ^a   Li, Baoyue ^b   Ausserhofer, Dietmar ^c   Lesaffre, Emmanuel ^a   Dumitrescu, Irina ^a   Smith, Herbert L ^d   Sloane, Douglas M ^d   Aiken, Linda H ^d   Sermeus, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

baccalaureate nursing education; nursing administration research; patient satisfaction; personnel staffing and scheduling; work schedule tolerance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BELGIUM; EUROPE; FINLAND; GERMANY; GREECE; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; IRELAND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING STAFF; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POLAND; QUALITY OF NURSING CARE; SPAIN; SWITZERLAND; WORK ENVIRONMENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; WORKLOAD;

EUROPE; HUMANS; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84946122569     PISSN: 10775587     EISSN: 15526801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077558715589188     Document Type: Article

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