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Abstract
Indicators of quality and nurse staffing in pediatrics are distinct from adults. A retrospective, correlational, linear mixed model design was used to describe relationships between pediatric nurse staffing and 5 indicators of quality care from a convenience sample of 7 academic children's hospitals. Key findings supported a strong inverse relationship between the proportion of hours of pediatric nursing care delivered by registered nurses and the rate of occurrence of central line (P < .001) and bloodstream infections (P < .05). Supplemental nurse staffing hours also demonstrated relationships between bloodstream infections and parent/family complaints.Entities:
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Year: 2008 PMID: 18344775 DOI: 10.1097/01.NCQ.0000313758.33654.49
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Nurs Care Qual ISSN: 1057-3631 Impact factor: 1.597