René Schwendimann

TL;DR: Based on the findings, general medical/surgical units should monitor the rationing of nursing care levels which may help to detect imbalances in the "work system", such as inadequate nurse staffing or skill mix levels to meet patients' needs.

TL;DR: Following the implementation of an interdisciplinary falls prevention program, neither the frequencies of falls nor consequent injuries decreased substantially, and future studies need to incorporate strategies to maximize and evaluate ongoing adherence to interventions in hospital falls prevention programs.

TL;DR: Evidence regarding the occurrence of AEs confirms earlier estimates that a tenth of inpatient stays include adverse events, half of which are preventable, and indicates automated methods for identifying AE using electronic health records have the potential to overcome various methodological issues and biases related to retrospective medical record review studies.

TL;DR: In the hospital studied, inpatient falls are significantly more common in departments of geriatrics and internal medicine than in surgical departments, probably due to differences in patient characteristics.

TL;DR: Rationing frequency varied among the 32 BERNCA items, indicating differing prioritizations of necessary nursing tasks, and three level regression models were used to investigate the effect of the selected nine predictors on rationing at the nurse, unit and hospital levels.