Frontiers in Operations: Valuing Nursing Productivity in Emergency Departments.

ABSTRACT:

Problem definition

We quantify the increase in productivity in emergency departments (ED) from increasing nurse staff. We then estimate the associated revenue gains for the hospital and the associated welfare gains for society.

Academic/practical relevance

The United States is over a decade into the worst nursing shortage crisis in history, fueled by chronic under-investment. To demonstrate to hospital managers and policymakers the benefits of investing in nursing, we clarify the positive downstream effects of doing so in the ED setting.

Methodology

We use a high-resolution data set of patient visits to the ED of a major U.S. academic hospital. Time-dependent hazard estimation methods (nonparametric and parametric) are used to study how the realtime service speed of a

SUBMITTER: Ding H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11346588 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul-Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature