Comparison of the Value of Nursing Work Environments in Hospitals Across Different Levels of Patient Risk.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The literature suggests that hospitals with better nursing work environments provide better quality of care. Less is known about value (cost vs quality).

Objectives

To test whether hospitals with better nursing work environments displayed better value than those with worse nursing environments and to determine patient risk groups associated with the greatest value.

Design, setting, and participants

A retrospective matched-cohort design, comparing the outcomes and cost of patients at focal hospitals recognized nationally as having good nurse working environments and nurse-to-bed ratios of 1 or greater with patients at control group hospitals without such recognition and with nurse-to-bed ratios less than 1. This study included 25 752 elderly Medicare general

SUBMITTER: Silber JH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4957817 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature