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Nurse staffing patterns and hospital efficiency in the United States
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The effects of four nurse staffing patterns on the efficiency of patient care delivery in the hospital: registered nurses from temporary agencies; part-time career RNs; RN rich skill mix; and organizationally experienced RNs are assessed.About:
This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 1997-01-01. It has received 80 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Staffing & Skill mix.read more
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Nurse experience and education: effect on quality of care.
TL;DR: Controlling for patient acuity, hours of nursing care, and staff mix, units with more experienced nurses had lower medication errors and lower patient fall rates, but adverse occurrence rates onunits with more baccalaureate-prepared nurses were not significantly better.
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Performance measurement of nursing care: state of the science and the current consensus.
TL;DR: This article reviews recent efforts and issues involved in identifying a set of nursing-sensitive performance measures and suggests that more needs to be done to sustain and strengthen current efforts.
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The impact of nurse staffing on hospital costs and patient length of stay: a systematic review.
TL;DR: Evidence reflected that significant reductions in cost and length of stay may be possible with higher ratios of nursing personnel in hospital settings, and sufficient numbers of RNs may prevent patient adverse events that cause patients to stay longer than necessary.
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A review and synthesis of demand management, capacity management and performance in health‐care services
Eric P. Jack,Thomas L. Powers +1 more
TL;DR: The literature on demand management, capacity management, and performance in health care has not been extensively reviewed as mentioned in this paper, and this need has been addressed by analyzing and synthesizing 463 articles published between 1986 and 2006.
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Nurse staffing and patient, nurse, and financial outcomes.
TL;DR: The evidence shows that adequate staffing and balanced workloads are central to achieving good outcomes, and the author offers recommendations for ensuring appropriate nurse staffing and for further research.
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The Economics of Organization: The Transaction Cost Approach
TL;DR: The transaction cost approach to the study of economic organization regards the transaction as the basic unit of analysis and holds that an understanding of transaction cost economizing is central to the analysis of organizations as mentioned in this paper.