Daily staffing trends and variation in Swiss long-term care from 2018-2023: A retrospective longitudinal analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Workforce shortages present an ongoing challenge for long-term care service providers in Switzerland. After the COVID-19 pandemic, there is an urgent need to understand current workforce trends to strengthen the Swiss long-term care setting.

Objective

We aimed to describe pre-, peri‑, and post-pandemic trends and variation of long-term care staffing.

Design

We conducted a retrospective longitudinal analysis using daily administrative routine data from 2018 to 2023.

Settings

A multisite long-term care facility in Switzerland with 180 beds.

Methods

We applied a time-series decomposition - a method to distinguish trends from seasonal effects and residual variation - to describe trends and variation for three outcomes: a) the supply-demand-match (

SUBMITTER: Blatter C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12801158 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature