The association between nurse staffing and omissions in nursing care: A systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To identify nursing care most frequently missed in acute adult inpatient wards and to determine evidence for the association of missed care with nurse staffing.

Background

Research has established associations between nurse staffing levels and adverse patient outcomes including in-hospital mortality. However, the causal nature of this relationship is uncertain and omissions of nursing care (referred as missed care, care left undone or rationed care) have been proposed as a factor which may provide a more direct indicator of nurse staffing adequacy.

Design

Systematic review.

Data sources

We searched the Cochrane Library, CINAHL, Embase and Medline for quantitative studies of associations between staffing and missed care. We searched key journals, personal l

SUBMITTER: Griffiths P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6033178 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature