Journal article
Does Better Nurse Staffing Improve Detection of Depression and Anxiety As Secondary Conditions in Hospitalized Patients with Pneumonia?
Nursing economic, Vol.34(3), pp.134-143
05/01/2016
PMID: 27439250
Abstract
Identifying anxiety and depression in hospital patients has important implications for the quality of care, including reducing hospital admissions, promoting patient-centered care, and improving long-term patient outcomes.
Hospital admissions are important opportunities for uncovering mental illness; whether hospitals actually take advantage of these important opportunities may depend on staffing.
Nurse staffing is central to achieving the goals outlined by patient-centered care initiatives.
The results of this study suggest an effect of nursing ratios on the detection of secondary mental health conditions via a quasi-experiment surrounding California's minimum nursing ratio law.
This analysis indicates hospitals with larger decreases in the number of patients under each nurse's care had greater improvements in the detection of secondary depression and anxiety in patients with pneumonia.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Does Better Nurse Staffing Improve Detection of Depression and Anxiety As Secondary Conditions in Hospitalized Patients with Pneumonia?
- Creators
- Ashley Hodgson - St Olaf Coll, Econ, Northfield, MN 55057 USADorothy Morgan - StatSight Consulting, Houston, TX USARyan Peterson - Univ Iowa, Iowa City, IA USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Nursing economic, Vol.34(3), pp.134-143
- PMID
- 27439250
- NLM abbreviation
- Nurs Econ
- ISSN
- 0746-1739
- Publisher
- Jannetti Publications, Inc
- Number of pages
- 10
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/01/2016
- Academic Unit
- Biostatistics; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984914151102771
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