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Costs and consequences of using average demand to plan baseline nurse staffing levels: a computer simulation study

BACKGROUND: Planning numbers of nursing staff allocated to each hospital ward (the ‘staffing establishment’) is challenging because both demand for and supply of staff vary. Having low numbers of registered nurses working on a shift is associated with worse quality of care and adverse patient outcom...

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Autores principales: Saville, Christina, Monks, Thomas, Griffiths, Peter, Ball, Jane Elisabeth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7788209/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32217698
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2019-010569