Background: Studies over the past several decades have shown an association between
nurse staffing and patient outcomes. Most of those studies were generated from general …

Objective To determine associations between variations in registered nurse staffing levels in
adult critical care units and outcomes such as patient, nurse, organisational and family …

Recent decades have seen the global emergence of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus
aureus (MRSA), causing substantial health and economic burdens on patients and health …

OBJECTIVE To examine whether healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and nurse staffing
are associated using unit-level staffing data. BACKGROUND Previous studies of the …

Background Understanding factors that can potentially influence patient care and nursing
workload in intensive care units is important. Previous studies have shown contradictory …

Practice guidelines are systematically developed statements and recommendations that
assist the physicians and patients in making decisions about appropriate health care …

Hospital-acquired infections (HAI) are often seen as preventable incidents that result from
unsafe practices or poor hospital hygiene. This however ignores the fact that transmissibility …

In the past 10 years, many researchers have examined relationships between hospital
staffing and patients' risk of health care–associated infection (HAI). To gain understanding of …

Background Previous literature has linked the level and types of staffing of health facilities to
the risk of acquiring a health care–associated infection (HAI). Investigating this relationship …

Article-at-a-Glance Background Contact with health care workers may be an important
means of infection transmission between patients, yet little is known about patterns of patient …