Role of nurses in improving patient safety: Evidence from surgical complications in 21 countries.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To analyze the role of nurse staffing in improving patient safety due to reducing surgical complications in member countries of Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Methods

The number of practicing nurses' density per 1000 population and five surgical complications indicators including foreign body left in during procedure (FBL), postoperative pulmonary embolism (PPE) and deep vein thrombosis (DVT) after hip and knee replacement, postoperative sepsis after abdominal surgery (PSA) and postoperative wound dehiscence (PWD) were collected in crude rates per 100,000 hospital discharges for age group of 15 years old and over within 30 days after surgery based on surgical admission-related and all admission-related methods. The observations of 2

SUBMITTER: Amiri A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6722466 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature