Nursing Team Composition and Mortality Following Acute Hospital Admission.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Many studies show the adverse consequences of insufficient nurse staffing in hospitals, but safe and effective staffing is unlikely to be just about staff numbers. There are considerable areas of uncertainty, including whether temporary staff can safely make up shortfalls in permanent staff and whether using experienced staff can mitigate the effect of staff shortages.

Objective

To explore the association of the composition of the nursing team with the risk of patient deaths.

Design, setting, and participants

This patient-level longitudinal observational study was conducted in 185 wards in 4 acute hospital trusts in England between April 2015 and March 2020. Eligible participants were patients with an overnight stay and nursing staff on adult inpatient ward

SUBMITTER: Griffiths P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11333978 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature