Nursing Care Disparities in Neonatal Intensive Care Units

Health Services Research

Volumn 53, Issue , 2018, Pages 3007-3026

  Lake, Eileen T ^a   Staiger, Douglas ^b   Edwards, Erika Miles ^c,d   Smith, Jessica G ^e   Rogowski, Jeannette A ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

^c VERMONT OXFORD NETWORK   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

^f RUTGERS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

health disparities; Missed nursing care; nurse staffing; nurse work environment; very low birthweight infants

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE NURSING; NURSE PATIENT RATIO; RANDOM SAMPLE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UNITED STATES; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORKLOAD; ENVIRONMENT; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; NEWBORN; NURSING STAFF; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENT; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES; WORKLOAD;

EID: 85050381227     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.12762     Document Type: Article

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