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Herbert L. Smith
Researcher at University of Pennsylvania
Publications - 75
Citations - 7956
Herbert L. Smith is an academic researcher from University of Pennsylvania. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Fertility. The author has an hindex of 34, co-authored 73 publications receiving 7321 citations. Previous affiliations of Herbert L. Smith include Indiana University & Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics.
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Patient safety, satisfaction, and quality of hospital care: cross sectional surveys of nurses and patients in 12 countries in Europe and the United States.
Linda H. Aiken,Walter Sermeus,Koen Van den Heede,Douglas M. Sloane,Reinhard Busse,Martin McKee,Luk Bruyneel,Anne Marie Rafferty,Peter Griffiths,María Teresa Moreno-Casbas,Carol Tishelman,Anne Scott,Tomasz Brzostek,Juha Kinnunen,René Schwendimann,Maud Heinen,Dimitris Zikos,Ingeborg Strømseng Sjetne,Herbert L. Smith,Ann Kutney-Lee +19 more
TL;DR: In European hospitals, improvement of hospital work environments might be a relatively low cost strategy to improve safety and quality in hospital care and to increase patient satisfaction.
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Lower Medicare mortality among a set of hospitals known for good nursing care.
TL;DR: The same factors that lead hospitals to be identified as effective from the standpoint of the organization of nursing care are associated with lower mortality among Medicare patients.
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Effects of nurse staffing and nurse education on patient deaths in hospitals with different nurse work environments.
Linda H. Aiken,Jeannie P. Cimiotti,Douglas M. Sloane,Herbert L. Smith,Linda Flynn,Donna Felber Neff +5 more
TL;DR: Although the positive effect of increasing percentages of Bachelors of Science in Nursing Degree nurses is consistent across all hospitals, lowering the patient-to-nurse ratios markedly improves patient outcomes in hospitals with good work environments, slightly improves them in hospitalswith average environments, and has no effect in hospitalsWith poor environments.
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Effects of nurse staffing and nurse education on patient deaths in hospitals with different nurse work environments.
Linda H. Aiken,Jeannie P. Cimiotti,Douglas M. Sloane,Herbert L. Smith,Linda Flynn,Donna Felber Neff +5 more
TL;DR: Although the positive effect of increasing percentages of Bachelors of Science in Nursing Degree nurses is consistent across all hospitals, lowering the patient-to-nurse ratios markedly improves patient outcomes in hospitals with good work environments, slightly improves them in hospital with average environments, and has no effect in hospitalsWith poor environments.
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The Comparative Method: Moving Beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a comparative method moving beyond qualitative and quanative strategies. And they extend the join to purchase and create bargains to download and install the comparative method, which is correspondingly simple.