Original Research
AJN American Journal of NursingPublished 1 February 2012
Susan Letvak, Christopher J. Ruhm, Sat Gupta
Citations316
SJR quartileQ3
SJR score0.32
SNIP0.61
Generate an AI Snapshot to get a quick, structured summary of this paper.
Study Snapshot
ObjectiveStudy objective
MethodsResearch methodology
PopulationPopulation studied
Sample sizeSample sizes
OutcomesStudy outcomes here
ResultsStudy results comes here
LimitationsResearch study limitations comes here
A concise AI-generated summary of the paper will appear here once you click Generate AI Snapshot.
TL;DR
Investigation of the extent to which musculoskeletal pain or depression in RNs affects their work productivity and self-reported quality of care and the associated costs found more attention must be paid to the health of the nursing workforce to positively influence the quality of patient care and patient safety.
Abstract
More attention must be paid to the health of the nursing workforce to positively influence the quality of patient care and patient safety and to control costs.
Keywords
Health Professions
Journal of General Internal MedicineThe PHQ-9
44,186 Citations2001Kurt Kroenke, Robert L. Spitzer +1 more
In addition to making criteria-based diagnoses of depressive disorders, the PHQ-9 is also a reliable and valid measure of depression severity, which makes it a useful clinical and research tool.
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of ReviewsMail and Telephone Surveys: The Total Design Method.
6,895 Citations1982Earl Babbie, Don A. Dillman
JAMAHospital Nurse Staffing and Patient Mortality, Nurse Burnout, and Job Dissatisfaction
5,188 Citations2002Linda H. Aiken
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.
JAMALost Productive Time and Cost Due to Common Pain Conditions in the US Workforce
1,568 Citations2003Walter F. Stewart
Pain is an inordinately common and disabling condition in the US workforce and most of the pain-related lost productive time occurs while employees are at work and is in the form of reduced performance.
JAMACost of Lost Productive Work Time Among US Workers With Depression
1,434 Citations2003Walter F. Stewart
The combined LPT burden among those with depression and the low level of treatment suggests that there may be cost-effective opportunities for improving depression-related outcomes in the US workforce.
SpineResponsiveness of the Numeric Pain Rating Scale in Patients with Low Back Pain
1,416 Citations2005John D. Childs, Sara R. Piva +1 more
Clinicians can be confident that a 2-point change on the numerical pain rating scale (NPRS) represents clinically meaningful change that exceeds the bounds of measurement error.
Journal of Epidemiology & Community HealthSick but yet at work. An empirical study of sickness presenteeism
1,253 Citations2000Gunnar Aronsson, Klas Gustafsson +1 more
The link between difficulties in replacement or finding a stand in and sickness presenteeism is confirmed and members of occupational groups whose everyday tasks are to provide care or welfare services, or teach or instruct, have a substantially increased risk of being at work when sick.
International Journal for Quality in Health CareHospital staffing, organization, and quality of care: cross-national findings
730 Citations2002Linda H. Aiken
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.
Psychological MedicineWork stress precipitates depression and anxiety in young, working women and men
692 Citations2007Maria Melchior, Avshalom Caspi +4 more
Work stress appears to precipitate diagnosable depression and anxiety in previously healthy young workers, and helping workers cope with work stress or reducing work stress levels could prevent the occurrence of clinically significant depression and Anxiety.
Journal of Occupational and Environmental MedicineWhat Does Research Tell Us About Depression, Job Performance, and Work Productivity?
504 Citations2008Debra Lerner, Rachel Mosher Henke
The research suggests that the work impact of depression is related to symptom severity and that symptom relief only partly reduces the adverse work outcomes of depression.
Journal of Occupational and Environmental MedicineThe Role of Health Risk Factors and Disease on Worker Productivity
425 Citations1999Wayne N. Burton, Daniel J. Conti +3 more
A measure of the actual decrease in the productivity of employees while they are on the job is included, in addition to measures of absenteeism and disability, to produce a Worker Productivity Index.
American Journal of PsychiatryJob Performance Deficits Due to Depression
416 Citations2006David A. Adler
Multiple dimensions of job performance are impaired by depression, and this impact persisted after symptoms have improved, so efforts to reduce work-impairment secondary to depression are needed.
Journal of Occupational and Environmental MedicineThe Relationship Between Modifiable Health Risks and Health Care Expenditures
401 Citations1998Ron Z. Goetzel, David R. Anderson +4 more
It is concluded that common modifiable health risks are associated with short-term increases in the likelihood of incurring health expenditures and in the magnitude of those expenditures.
Health Services ResearchImplications of the California Nurse Staffing Mandate for Other States
397 Citations2010Linda H. Aiken, Douglas M. Sloane +6 more
When nurses' workloads were in line with California-mandated ratios in all three states, nurses' burnout and job dissatisfaction were lower, and nurses reported consistently better quality of care.
PharmacoEconomicsThe Cost and Impact of Health Conditions on Presenteeism to Employers
347 Citations2009Alyssa B. Schultz, Chin‐Yu Chen +1 more
Health conditions are associated with on-the-job productivity losses and presenteeism is a major component of the total employer cost of those conditions, although the exact dollar amount cannot be determined at this time.
Journal of Advanced NursingImpact of hospital nursing care on 30‐day mortality for acute medical patients
338 Citations2006Ann E. Tourangeau, Diane Doran +5 more
Just as hospitals and clinicians caring for patients focus carefully on completing accurate diagnosis and appropriate and effective interventions, so too should hospitals carefully plan and manage structures and processes of care such as the proportion of Registered Nurses in the staff mix, percentage of baccalaureate-prepared nurses, and routine use of care maps to minimize unnecessary patient death.
BMJEffectiveness of targeted falls prevention programme in subacute hospital setting: randomised controlled trial
314 Citations2004Terry Haines, Kim L. Bennell +2 more
A targeted multiple intervention falls prevention programme implemented in addition to usual care compared with usual care alone reduces the incidence of falls in the subacute hospital setting.
Critical Care MedicineNurse staffing and patient outcomes in critical care: A concise review
296 Citations2010Daleen Penoyer
The American Journal of MedicineSerious falls in hospitalized patients: Correlates and resource utilization
293 Citations1995David W. Bates, Kim Pruess +2 more
Falls during hospitalization are commoner in confused patients and those with greater comorbidity, probably because hospitalized patients are sicker and injurious falls are associated with substantially increased resource utilization.
SpineBack Pain Exacerbations and Lost Productive Time Costs in United States Workers
272 Citations2006Judith A. Ricci, Walter F. Stewart +4 more
The prevalence of back pain and back pain exacerbations in workers 40 to 65 years of age was measured, and workers with BP exacerbations account for a disproportionate share of the cost of BP-related lost productive time.
American Journal of Public HealthMajor Depressive Episodes and Work Stress: Results From a National Population Survey
264 Citations2007Emma Robertson Blackmore, Stephen Stansfeld +4 more
Gender differences appear to affect work-stress factors that increase risk for depression, and prevention strategies need to be developed with employers and employee organizations to address work organization and to increase social support.
Journal of Nursing ManagementA literature review of the individual and systems factors that contribute to medication errors in nursing practice
260 Citations2009Anne‐Marie Brady, Anne-Marie Malone +1 more
A review of the empirical literature on factors that contribute to medication errors finds consistency between health care professionals as to what constitutes medication error will contribute to increased accuracy and compliance in reporting of medication errors, thereby informing health care policies aimed at reducing the occurrence of medication error.
American Journal of PsychiatryEffects of Major Depression on Moment-in-Time Work Performance
252 Citations2004Philip S. Wang, Arne Beck +5 more
Comparative data on moment-in-time work performance among service workers who were depressed and those who were not depressed is collected to address the possibility of recall bias in self-report studies of depression effects.
International Archives of Occupational and Environmental HealthDoes sickness presenteeism have an impact on future general health?
242 Citations2009Gunnar Bergström, Lennart Bodin +4 more
Sickness presenteeism at baseline was consistently found to heighten the risk of fair/poor health at both the 18-month and 3-year follow ups even after adjusting for the detected confounders.
Journal of Occupational and Environmental MedicineReliability and Validity of the Stanford Presenteeism Scale
240 Citations2004Robin S. Turpin, Ronald J. Ozminkowski +7 more
The SPS demonstrates a high degree of reliability and validity and may be ideal for employers who seek a single scale to measure health-related productivity in a diverse employee population.
Nurse Staffing And Quality Of Patient Care.
207 Citations2024Robert L Kane, Tatyana Shamliyan +4 more
Increased nursing staffing in hospitals was associated with lower hospital-related mortality, failure to rescue, and other patient outcomes, but the association is not necessarily causal.
Journal of Occupational and Environmental MedicineThe Clinical and Occupational Correlates of Work Productivity Loss Among Employed Patients With Depression
206 Citations2004Debra Lerner, David A. Adler +7 more
The Work Limitations Questionnaire can help employers to reduce productivity loss by identifying health and productivity improvement priorities and certain occupations also significantly increased employee vulnerability to productivity loss.
Military MedicinePost-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Depression in Health Care Providers Returning from Deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan
203 Citations2007Tonya T. Kolkow, James Spira +2 more
For health care workers returning from a warfare environment, threat of personal harm may be the most predictive factor in determining those with subsequent PTSD.
Journal of Advanced NursingNew low back pain in nurses: work activities, work stress and sedentary lifestyle
182 Citations2004Vera Yin Bing Yip
The findings of this study suggest that low back pain is a common problem in the population of nurses in Hong Kong, and being comparatively new on a ward, bending frequently during work and having poor work relationships with colleagues are independent predictors of new low backPain.
Journal of Occupational and Environmental MedicineHealth-Related Workplace Productivity Measurement: General and Migraine-Specific Recommendations from the ACOEM Expert Panel
173 Citations2003Ronald Loeppke, Pamela A. Hymel +7 more
The expert panel recommended absenteeism, presenteeism, and employee turnover/replacement costs as key elements of workplace health-related productivity measurement and productivity instruments should have supporting scientific evidence, be applicable to the particular work setting, be supportive of effective business decision-making, and be practical.
Health EconomicsValuing reductions in on‐the‐job illness: ‘presenteeism’ from managerial and economic perspectives
167 Citations2007Mark V. Pauly, Sean Nicholson +3 more
A study of manager perceptions of the cost to employers of on-the-job employee illness, sometimes termed 'presenteeism,' for various types of jobs found Jobs with high values of team production, high requirements for timely output, and high difficulties of substitution for absent or impaired workers had significantly higher indicators of cost.
PubMedFactors influencing work productivity and intent to stay in nursing.
146 Citations2008Susan Letvak, Raymond Buck
Nurse leaders must place additional efforts on changes needed to improve the hospital workplace environment to decrease job stress, improve RNs' ability to provide quality care, and to assure the health and safety of nurses.
International Journal of Nursing StudiesThe impact of common mental disorders on the work functioning of nurses and allied health professionals: A systematic review
144 Citations2010Fania R. Gärtner, Karen Nieuwenhuijsen +2 more
Common mental disorders were found to be associated with various impairments in work functioning in nurses, these include task-related, intrapersonal and interpersonal aspects of work.
American Journal of Public HealthHealth Care System Changes and Reported Musculoskeletal Disorders Among Registered Nurses
144 Citations2004Jane Lipscomb, Alison M. Trinkoff +2 more
Medical Care Research and ReviewPerformance Measurement of Nursing Care
133 Citations2007Jack Needleman, Ellen T. Kurtzman +1 more
This article reviews recent efforts and issues involved in identifying a set of nursing-sensitive performance measures and suggests that more needs to be done to sustain and strengthen current efforts.
Critical Care NurseCritical Care Nurses’ Work Environments: A Baseline Status Report
126 Citations2006Beth Ulrich, Ramón Lavandero +4 more
National standards for establishing and sustaining healthy work environments address skilled communication, true collaboration, effective decision making, appropriate staffing, meaningful recognition, and authentic leadership in the work environment are published.
Journal of Occupational RehabilitationWork Factors Related to Psychological and Health-Related Distress Among Employees with Chronic Illnesses
112 Citations2007Fehmidah Munir, Joanna Yarker +5 more
To enable individuals to effectively manage both their illness and their work without serious repercussions, it is important for both healthcare professionals and employers alike to improve the well-being of workers with chronic illness by supporting and facilitating their efforts to over-come health-related limitations at work.
Journal of Occupational and Environmental MedicineComparative and Interactive Effects of Depression Relative to Other Health Problems on Work Performance in the Workforce of a Large Employer
88 Citations2008Ronald C. Kessler, Leigh Ann White +5 more
Depression is a strong predictor of decrements in work performance and other conditions that often co-occur with depression, including anxiety and fatigue-sleep disturbance, exacerbate the adverse effect of depression.
Issues in Mental Health NursingPredictors of Depressive Symptoms in Female Medical-Surgical Hospital Nurses
86 Citations2009Darlene Welsh
Information from this study can guide the development of interventions to reduce depressive symptoms among hospital nurses and help improve nursing care delivery when distressing symptoms interfere with professional performance among nurses.
PubMedThe measurement of musculoskeletal pain intensity: a comparison of four methods.
86 Citations2007Cristiane Helena Gallasch, Neusa Maria Costa Alexandre
The numerical scale was considered the easiest to understand and to complete, while the most difficult was the visual analogy scale.
Journal of Occupational and Environmental MedicineWorkplace Characteristics, Depression, and Health-Related Presenteeism in a General Population Sample
84 Citations2010JianLi Wang, Norbert Schmitz +3 more
Workplace health promotion activities should target organizational factors such as job strain and effort-reward imbalance and work/family conflicts so as to reduce the risk of depression and the direct and indirect effects of these risk factors and depression on productivity.
Journal of Occupational RehabilitationWhat Happens to Work if you’re Unwell? Beliefs and Attitudes of Managers and Employees With Musculoskeletal Pain in a Public Sector Setting
80 Citations2010Gwenllian Wynne‐Jones, Rhiannon Buck +5 more
Investigation of the beliefs and attitudes of managers and employees with musculoskeletal pain about sickness absence, presenteeism, and return to work and to identify areas of consensus and conflict required careful consideration of the rights and responsibilities of both employees and employers.
JONA The Journal of Nursing AdministrationEffective Strategies to Increase Reporting of Medication Errors in Hospitals
80 Citations2006Mary VanOyen Force, Linda Deering +5 more
The successful development of a nonblame culture of medication error reporting led to identified sources of problems and improvement of the medication administration system.
Medical CareNurse Staffing and Quality of Care With Direct Measurement of Inpatient Staffing
77 Citations2010David W. Harless, Barbara A. Mark
Estimates suggest that changes in RN staffing were associated with reductions in mortality and failure to rescue, and are found to be consistent with attenuation bias induced by imputation.
American Journal of Critical CareTypes of Intensive Care Units With the Healthiest, Most Productive Work Environments
73 Citations2007Claudia Schmalenberg, Marlene Kramer
Systematic study of the structures and processes present in units reporting a healthy work environment can be used to assist other clinical units in improving work environments.
Policy Politics & Nursing PracticeNurse Staffing and Adverse Events in Hospitalized Children
69 Citations2007Barbara A. Mark, David W. Harless +1 more
More hours of care provided by RNs was associated with improved quality of care for hospitalized pediatric patients and the positive impact of increases in nurse staffing was of greater magnitude at institutions providing fewer resource-adjusted hours of RN care.
Disease ManagementWorker Productivity Loss Associated with Arthritis
60 Citations2006Wayne N. Burton, Chin‐Yu Chen +4 more
Disease management programs should focus on pain management and arthritis-associated health risks and comorbidities in order to significantly decrease arthritis-related losses in on-the-job productivity.
Journal of Occupational and Environmental MedicineEffects of Presenteeism in Chronic Occupational Musculoskeletal Disorders: Stay at Work is Validated
56 Citations2009Krista Howard, Tom G. Mayer +1 more
Patients classified as presentees were significantly more likely to complete the prescribed functional restoration treatment program, to return to work (full-duty or full-time), to retain work 1-year posttreatment, and to have a decrease in job demand from preinjury to posttreatment.
Journal of Occupational and Environmental MedicineThe Association Between Beliefs About Low Back Pain and Work Presenteeism
53 Citations2009Anne F. Mannion, Bruno Horisberger +4 more
Negative beliefs about LBP are associated with both work absence and reduced work-productivity and should be examined as a target for educational interventions when considering initiatives to reduce the socioeconomic costs of LBP.
Journal of Health Services Research & PolicyModelling the Expected Net Benefits of Interventions to Reduce the Burden of Medication Errors
53 Citations2008Jonathan Karnon, Aileen McIntosh +10 more
Estimating the potential costs and benefits of three key interventions to help prioritize research to reduce medication errors and identifying key drivers of cost-effectiveness that should be specifically addressed in the design of primary evaluations of medication error interventions are identified.
PubMedThe recession's effect on hospital registered nurse employment growth.
36 Citations2011Peter I. Buerhaus, David I. Auerbach
While national unemployment rates remain high, hospitals should prepare for an eventual jobs recovery when many RNs are likely to leave the workforce.
International Journal of Nursing StudiesStriving for balance: A grounded theory study of health experiences of nurses with musculoskeletal problems
30 Citations2006Birgitta Wiitavaara, Margareta Barnekow‐Bergkvist +1 more
The diversity of the illness experience, the parallel importance of wellness, and the process of balancing these two in order to feel well enough are indicated.
Safety ScienceA prospective hazard and improvement analytic approach to predicting the effectiveness of medication error interventions
25 Citations2006Jonathan Karnon, Aileen McIntosh +10 more
A novel quantitative modelling method is implemented to predict rates of preventable adverse drug events (ADEs) and identify interventions with the greatest potential for reducing the burden of medication errors in secondary care.
Journal of Occupational and Environmental MedicineEtiology of Depression and Implications on Work Environment
24 Citations2008Alan M. Langlieb, J. Raymond DePaulo
Research findings about the various causal connections in depressive disorders may provide some guides to treatment as well as to further research on depression in the workplace.
Journal of Occupational and Environmental MedicineMeasuring Work Productivity With a Mental Health Self-Report Measure
14 Citations2009Vinessa Kaye Trotter, Michael J. Lambert +6 more
The SR can be used to estimate work productivity using tools like the Productivity Calculator and specific relationships among measures and suggestions for future research are discussed.
Journal of Occupational and Environmental MedicineWork Productivity Impairment From Musculoskeletal Disorder Pain in Long-Term Caregivers
11 Citations2009Patricia Gucer, Marc Oliver +2 more
Specifically linking MSD pain from manual resident lifting to impaired work productivity may provide employers with additional visible impact of manual lifting beyond compensation costs alone, and thus promote adoption of safer lifting practices.
