The association between higher nurse staffing standards in the fee schedules and the geographic distribution of hospital nurses: A cross-sectional study using nationwide administrative data

BACKGROUND: In Japan, the revision of the fee schedules in 2006 introduced a new category of general care ward for more advanced care, with a higher staffing standard, a patient-to-nurse ratio of 7:1. Previous studies have suggested that these changes worsened inequalities in the geographic distribu...

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Autores principales: Morioka, Noriko, Tomio, Jun, Seto, Toshikazu, Kobayashi, Yasuki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5442664/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28546786
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12912-017-0219-1

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5442664/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28546786
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12912-017-0219-1

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