The impact of nurse staffing levels on nursing-sensitive patient outcomes: a multilevel regression approach.

ABSTRACT: The goal of this study is to provide empirical evidence of the impact of nurse staffing levels on seven nursing-sensitive patient outcomes (NSPOs) at the hospital unit level. Combining a very large set of claims data from a German health insurer with mandatory quality reports published by every hospital in Germany, our data set comprises approximately 3.2 million hospital stays in more than 900 hospitals over a period of 5 years. Accounting for the grouping structure of our data (i.e., patients grouped in unit types), we estimate cross-sectional, two-level generalized linear mixed models (GLMMs) with inpatient cases at level 1 and units types (e.g., internal medicine, geriatrics) at level 2. Our regressions yield 32 significant results in the expected direction. We find that differentiatin

SUBMITTER: Dietermann K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8214586 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature