Nurse-staffing level and quality of acute care services: Evidence from cross-national panel data analysis in OECD countries.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Most of previous studies aimed to estimate the effect of nurse staffing on quality of acute hospital care have used stochastic methods and their results are mixed.

Objective

To measure the magnitude of effect of nurse-staffing level on increasing quality of acute care services in long-run.

Data

The number of practicing nurses' density per 1000 population as the proxy of nurse-staffing level and three Health Care Quality Indicators (HCQI) included 30-day mortality per 100 patients based on acute myocardial infarction (MORTAMIO), hemorrhagic stroke (MORTHSTO) and ischemic stroke (MORTISTO) were collected as a part of ongoing project by OECD.org in panels of 26 OECD countries over 2005-2015 period.

Method

Panel data analysis.

Results

There were c

SUBMITTER: Amiri A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6608666 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature