Quality of End-of-Life Care and Its Association with Nurse Practice Environments in U.S. Hospitals.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The purpose of this study is twofold: (1) to describe the quality of end-of-life care in US hospitals from the perspective of hospital nurses; and (2) to evaluate the relationship between the nurse practice environment and end-of-life care quality.

Design

Cross-sectional analysis of multiple linked secondary data sources.

Participants and setting

A total of 12,870 direct care registered nurses in 491 acute-care hospitals.

Measurements

Measures of end-of-life care quality and nurse practice environment were derived from the 2016 RN4CAST-US survey of nurses. Nurses reported on end-of-life care quality for patients for whom death within a year would not be surprising. Nurse practice environment was measured using the Practice Environment Scale of the Nu

SUBMITTER: Lasater KB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6367037 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature