Understaffing was associated with increased mortality

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??The data collected? included ?the records of nearly 198,000 admitted patients and? ?177,000 eight-hour nursing shifts across 43 patient-care units at a large tertiary? ?academic medical center in the U.S?. The researchers chose to collect this data because they were interested in understanding ?the impact of nurse staffing? levels on patient outcomes, specifically mortality. By comparing the ?target staffing level? with the ?actual staffing level?, they could determine whether understaffing was associated with increased mortality.

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