Background: A critical shortage of health workers with needed maternal and newborn
competencies remains a major challenge for the provision of quality care for mothers and …

The challenge of nurse staffing is amplified in the acute care neonatal intensive care unit
(NICU) setting, where a wide range of highly variable factors affect staffing. A …

Introduction: Sepsis is regarded as a risk factor for brain injury in preterm infants. We herein
hypothesize that extremely low birth weight infants (ELBWI, birth weight< 1,000 g) having …

Maternal sepsis is a sepsis that occurs during pregnancy, childbirth, postabortion or in the
postpartum period and neonatal sepsis is a sepsis that occurs within the first 28 days of life …

Objective To describe the associations between patient-to-nurse staffing ratios and rates of
mortality, process of care events and vital sign documentation. Design Secondary analysis …

Methods We conducted a cross-sectional study using a sample of nurses in Greece. The
NASA task load index was used to measure workloads among nurses. Also, we used valid …

Background Healthcare-associated infections represent a major burden in neonatal
intensive care units. Hand antisepsis is the most important tool for prevention, however …

Background: Complexity of care, adequate staffing levels, and workflow are key factors
affecting nurses' workloads. There remain notable gaps in the current evidence regarding …

Evaluating risk factors for mortality in local populations such as adult patients admitted on
mechanical ventilation in intensive care units (ICU) may provide support for the …

Background The extensive use of antibiotics is reflected by an increasing prevalence of
infections with multidrug-resistant bacteria, including third-generation cephalosporin …