Minimum Nurse-to-Patient Ratios Improve Staffing, Patient Outcomes

1 September 2021

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Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in The American Journal of Nursing

Vol. 121 (9), 57
https://doi.org/10.1097/01.naj.0000790644.96356.96

Abstract

According to this study: Minimum nurse-to-patient staffing ratios not only improve nurse staffing and patient outcomes but also yield a good return on investment. Staffing improvements of one fewer patient per nurse led to improvements in mortality, readmissions, and length of stay.

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Effects of nurse-to-patient ratio legislation on nurse staffing and patient mortality, readmissions, and length of stay: a prospective study in a panel of hospitals
The Lancet, 2021

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