Is “failure to rescue” derived from administrative data in England a nurse sensitive patient safety indicator for surgical care? Observational study
International Journal of Nursing StudiesPublished 26 November 2012
Peter Griffiths, Simon Jones, Alex Bottle
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Failure to rescue can be derived from English administrative data and may be a valid quality indicator, and the suggestion that the number of patients with an extended hospital stay is a good proxy is not clearly supported.
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Failure to rescue can be derived from English administrative data and may be a valid quality indicator. This is the first study to assess the association between failure to rescue and medical staffing. The suggestion that it is particularly sensitive to nursing is not clearly supported, nor is the suggestion that the number of patients with an extended hospital stay is a good proxy.
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