The association between higher nurse staffing standards in the fee schedules and the geographic distribution of hospital nurses: A cross-sectional study using nationwide administrative data

BMC Nursing

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Morioka, Noriko ^a,b   Tomio, Jun ^a   Seto, Toshikazu ^c   Kobayashi, Yasuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Geographic distribution of nurses; Health resources; Health services geographic accessibility; Nurse staffing; Nurse workforce; Patient to nurse ratio

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODEL; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NURSING STAFF; OUTCOME VARIABLE; REIMBURSEMENT; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85019915279     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12912-017-0219-1     Document Type: Article

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