Work unit level personnel working hours and the patients' length of in-hospital stay-An administrative data approach.

ABSTRACT: Administrative data accumulating daily from hospitals would provide new possibilities to assess work shifts and patient care. We aimed to investigate associations of work unit level average work shift length and length of patient in-hospital stay, and to examine the role of nurse-patient-ratio, year, night work, age, work units and working hours at the work units for these estimations. The data for this study were based on combined administrative day-to-day patient and pay-roll based objective working hour data of employees of one hospital district in Finland for 2013-2019. Three patient measures were calculated: the overall length of in-hospital stay, the length of in-hospital stay before a medical procedure and the length of in-hospital stay after a medical procedure. A Generalized Linea

SUBMITTER: Krutova O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10228787 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature