Abstract
The authors explored minimum nurse staffing ratios for nursing homes using production function simulations. Minimum levels of registered nurse hours per resident day were 0.31, 1.83, and 3.3 at 50%, 75%, and 90% levels of quality respectively. These results suggest that efficiency-oriented minimum nurse staffing points exist, and could be used to inform policymakers and nursing home administrators on better resource allocation and health care delivery.
Publication types
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Evaluation Study
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Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
MeSH terms
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Catheterization / nursing
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Catheterization / statistics & numerical data
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Guidelines as Topic*
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Health Care Surveys
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Humans
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Incidence
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Models, Statistical
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Nursing Homes / organization & administration*
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Nursing Homes / statistics & numerical data
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Nursing Staff / standards*
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Nursing Staff / statistics & numerical data
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Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care
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Personnel Staffing and Scheduling / standards*
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Personnel Staffing and Scheduling / statistics & numerical data
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Pressure Ulcer / epidemiology
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Pressure Ulcer / nursing
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Regression Analysis
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Reproducibility of Results
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Restraint, Physical / statistics & numerical data
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United States / epidemiology
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Workload