Nurse Staffing and Quality of Care With Direct Measurement of Inpatient Staffing
Medical CarePublished 12 June 2010
David W. Harless, Barbara A. Mark
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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.
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Results are compared with those from similar studies, including studies using imputation of inpatient staffing, and are found to be consistent with attenuation bias induced by imputation.
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MedicineHealth ProfessionsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
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