Hospital nurse staffing and patient mortality, nurse burnout, and job dissatisfaction.
- L. Aiken, S. Clarke, D. Sloane, J. Sochalski, J. Silber
- Medicine, Political ScienceJAMA
- 23 October 2002
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.
Nurses' reports on hospital care in five countries.
- L. Aiken, S. Clarke, J. Shamian
- Medicine, Political ScienceHealth Affairs
- 1 May 2001
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.
Measuring organizational traits of hospitals: the Revised Nursing Work Index.
- L. Aiken, P. Patrician
- Medicine, Political ScienceNursing Research
- 1 May 2000
The NWI-R has been found to capture organizational attributes that characterize professional nursing practice environments and its ability to explain differences in nurse burnout is found.
Patient safety, satisfaction, and quality of hospital care: cross sectional surveys of nurses and patients in 12 countries in Europe and the United States
- L. Aiken, W. Sermeus, Ann Kutney-Lee
- Medicine, Political ScienceBMJ : British Medical Journal
- 20 March 2012
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.
Hospital staffing, organization, and quality of care: Cross-national findings.
Adequate nurse staffing and organizational/managerial support for nursing are key to improving the quality of patient care, to diminishing nurse job dissatisfaction and burnout and, ultimately, to improvingThe nurse retention problem in hospital settings.
Nurse staffing and education and hospital mortality in nine European countries: a retrospective observational study
- L. Aiken, D. Sloane, W. Sermeus
- Medicine, Political ScienceThe Lancet
- 24 May 2014
Educational levels of hospital nurses and surgical patient mortality.
In hospitals with higher proportions of nurses educated at the baccalaureate level or higher, surgical patients experienced lower mortality and failure-to-rescue rates.
The working hours of hospital staff nurses and patient safety.
Logbooks completed by 393 hospital staff nurses revealed that participants usually worked longer than scheduled and that approximately 40 percent of the 5,317 work shifts they logged exceeded twelve hours.
Lower Medicare Mortality Among a Set of Hospitals Known for Good Nursing Care
- L. Aiken, H. L. Smith, E. Lake
- Medicine, Political ScienceMedical Care
- 1 August 1994
The same factors that lead hospitals to be identified as effective from the standpoint of the organization of nursing care are associated with lower mortality among Medicare patients.
Nurses' reports of working conditions and hospital quality of care in 12 countries in Europe.
- L. Aiken, D. Sloane, L. Bruyneel, K. Van den Heede, W. Sermeus
- Medicine, Political ScienceInternational Journal of Nursing Studies
- 1 February 2013
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