Open AccessAssociations of 4 Nurse Staffing Practices With Hospital Mortality
Author(s) -
Christian M. Rochefort,
MarieEve Beauchamp,
LiAnne Audet,
Michal Abrahamowicz,
Patricia Bourgault
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
medical care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.632
H-Index - 178
eISSN - 1537-1948
pISSN - 0025-7079
DOI - 10.1097/mlr.0000000000001397
Subject(s) - staffing , medicine , hazard ratio , skill mix , confidence interval , proportional hazards model , emergency medicine , intensive care unit , case mix index , health care , nursing , intensive care medicine , economics , economic growth
Cross-sectional studies of hospital-level administrative data have suggested that 4 nurse staffing practices-using adequate staffing levels, higher proportions of registered nurses (RNs) (skill mix), and more educated and experienced RNs-are each associated with reduced hospital mortality. To increase the validity of this evidence, patient-level longitudinal studies assessing the simultaneous associations of these staffing practices with mortality are required.