Medical Xpress September 24, 2024
A paper in the British Journal of Surgery shows that nursing shortages result in longer hospital stays and worse patient outcomes, including higher mortality. The paper is titled “Associations between outcomes for surgical admissions and nurse staffing—a longitudinal study using routine data from English Acute Hospitals”.
Doctors perform over 300 million surgeries each year worldwide. Observers have expressed concern about the quality of care for adult patients undergoing surgery and the rising cost of avoidable complications, extended hospitalizations, and readmissions. Some 55% of surgical site infections are preventable.
Until now, safety interventions to address this have focused mostly on implementing checklists, staff training and improving teamwork. But staff shortages alone may be an important reason for infections and other adverse...
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