Missed nursing care in acute care hospital settings in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Missed nursing care undermines nursing standards of care and minimising this phenomenon is crucial to maintaining adequate patient safety and the quality of patient care. The concept is a neglected aspect of human resource for health thinking, and it remains understudied in low-income and middle-income country (LMIC) settings which have 90% of the global nursing workforce shortages. Our objective in this review was to document the prevalence of missed nursing care in LMIC, identify the categories of nursing care that are most missed and summarise the reasons for this.

Methods

We conducted a systematic review searching Medline, Embase, Global Health, WHO Global index medicus and CINAHL from their inception up until August 2021. Publications were included if they we

SUBMITTER: Imam A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10015781 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature