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Linda H. Aiken
Researcher at University of Pennsylvania
Publications - 354
Citations - 47910
Linda H. Aiken is an academic researcher from University of Pennsylvania. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Staffing. The author has an hindex of 95, co-authored 341 publications receiving 43732 citations. Previous affiliations of Linda H. Aiken include Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics & Outcomes Research Consortium.
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Hospital Nurse Staffing and Patient Mortality, Nurse Burnout, and Job Dissatisfaction
TL;DR: In hospitals with high patient- to-nurse ratios, surgical patients experience higher risk-adjusted 30-day mortality and failure-to-rescue rates, and nurses are more likely to experience burnout and job dissatisfaction.
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Educational levels of hospital nurses and surgical patient mortality.
TL;DR: In hospitals with higher proportions of nurses educated at the baccalaureate level or higher, surgical patients experienced lower mortality and failure-to-rescue rates.
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Nurse staffing and education and hospital mortality in nine European countries: a retrospective observational study
Linda H. Aiken,Douglas M. Sloane,Luk Bruyneel,Koen Van den Heede,Peter Griffiths,Reinhard Busse,Marianna Diomidous,Juha Kinnunen,Maria Kózka,Emmanuel Lesaffre,Matthew D. McHugh,María Teresa Moreno-Casbas,Anne Marie Rafferty,René Schwendimann,P. Anne Scott,Carol Tishelman,Theo van Achterberg,Walter Sermeus +17 more
TL;DR: Differences in patient to nurse ratios and nurses' educational qualifications in nine of the 12 RN4CAST countries with similar patient discharge data were associated with variation in hospital mortality after common surgical procedures, implying an increased emphasis on bachelor's education for nurses could reduce preventable hospital deaths.
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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.
Nurses' Reports On Hospital Care In Five Countriese ways in which nurses' work is structured have left nurses
Linda H. Aiken,Sean P. Clarke,Douglas M. Sloane,Reinhard Busse,Heather F. Clarke,Phyllis Giovannetti,Jennifer Hunt,Anne Marie Rafferty,Judith Shamian +8 more
TL;DR: Reports from 43,000 nurses from more than 700 hospitals in the United States, Canada, England, Scotland, and Germany in 1998-1999 suggest core problems in work design and workforce management threaten the provision of care.