Nurse Staffing and Rural Hospital Performance Improvement
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Description
Examines the impact of nurse staffing on hospital performance improvement, with a comparison of rural and urban hospitals. Analyses the relationship between registered nurse (RN) hours per patient day to quality measure scores for pneumonia, heart failure, acute myocardial infarction (AMI), and a hospital-wide composite measure.
Author(s)
Gestur Davidson, Kathy Belk, Ira Moscovice
Date
12/2010
Type
Document
Organization
Upper Midwest Rural Health Research Center
Tagged as
Healthcare quality · Hospitals · Nurses