Year: 2015
Type: editorial
Abstract: Saf 2015;24:241–243. Brooks Carthon and colleagues1 assess the relationship between the quality of hospital work environments for registered nurses and ‘missed care ’ reported by nurses. Similar to other authors, they define missed care as care that nurses regarded as necessary but left undone due to a lack of time.2–4 Brooks Carthon and colleagues1 also explore the relationship between both of these variables and hospital readmis-sions for heart failure. Their analysis repre-sents an important step in moving beyond the literature describing relationships between nurse staffing and patient out-
Source: BMJ Quality & Safety
Author: Anne Sales
Institution: University of Michigan
Language: English
Subfield: Research and Theory
Field: Nursing
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2102381805