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Getting the right staffing mix reduces hospital deaths, finds study (Every extra doctor or nurse patient causes 4% - 7% death risk increase, each)
Medical Xpress / University of Southampton / BMJ Open ^ | June 8, 2023 | Bruna Rubbo et al

Posted on 06/11/2023 1:49:28 PM PDT by ConservativeMind

A study has found that health managers should consider the levels of a range of staff, beyond just doctors and nurses, when assessing patient safety.

Research shows hospitals with higher levels of allied healthcare professional (AHP) staff, such as physiotherapists, radiographers, dieticians and occupational therapists, report significantly lower mortality rates.

The findings showed that for hospitals where doctors and allied health professionals had to cover fewer beds, there were significantly lower mortality rates. However, for hospitals where there were more healthcare assistants and assistants to allied health professionals in the staffing mix, there were higher mortality rates.

The study also showed that for each additional bed a doctor was responsible for, the patient risk of death increased by 4 percent. This figure was the same for each additional bed that was added to an allied health professionals' workload.

However, for each additional bed a registered nurse had to cope with, the patient risk of death increased by 7 percent. This figure for nurses was not proven statistically significant in this study, but along with evidence from previous research, it does suggest that higher levels of registered nurses per bed are associated with lower mortality.

Dr. Chiara Dall'Ora adds, "While this is the first study to shine a light on the importance of multi-disciplinary staffing, we hope that it will initiate dialogue on ensuring there are safe staffing levels for all the different groups of staff alike, at policy and workforce planning level."

(Excerpt) Read more at medicalxpress.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: healthcare; hospitals; nursing
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This sounds like a good reason to get out of the hospital as fast as possible.
1 posted on 06/11/2023 1:49:28 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
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2 posted on 06/11/2023 1:50:14 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ConservativeMind

I recall maybe 40-50 years ago that some country’s physicians went on strike. I think it was India. The mortality rate plummeted.


3 posted on 06/11/2023 2:00:30 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: ConservativeMind

Wow. They actually needed a study for that. Should have just asked a nurse, but I think the smart ones all left the profession.


4 posted on 06/11/2023 2:00:39 PM PDT by pops88 ( Helping usher the glory of God into Las Vegas)
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To: ConservativeMind
(Every extra doctor or nurse patient causes 4% - 7% death risk increase, each)

So EXTRA doctors and nurses cause a death risk increase? Is that what the article really says.

5 posted on 06/11/2023 2:02:26 PM PDT by BipolarBob (I was going to start procrastinating this year, I just haven't got around to it.)
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To: ConservativeMind

FR requires posting actual headline!


6 posted on 06/11/2023 2:07:38 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: ConservativeMind

“(Every extra doctor or nurse patient causes 4% - 7% death risk increase, each)”

You have it backwards!

Every extra bed a doctor doctor or nurse patient has to cover causes 4% - 7% death risk increase.


7 posted on 06/11/2023 2:09:53 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: ConservativeMind

Don’t forget the housing staff.

Last time I was in the hospital, the doctor scheduled me for release at 5 pm on Friday. That didn’t work with housing so I was released at noon.


8 posted on 06/11/2023 2:29:12 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: TexasGator

Every extra doctor’s patient or nurse’s patient ups the risk 4-7%.


9 posted on 06/11/2023 2:34:02 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: TexasGator

The actual headline was posted.


10 posted on 06/11/2023 2:35:13 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: BipolarBob

Every extra doctor’s patient or nurse’s patient ups the risk 4 - 7%.


11 posted on 06/11/2023 2:36:02 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ConservativeMind

To me it shows that statistics cannot be counted on. I suspect that the sickest patients are the ones who they assign the most doctors and nurses to. So the causation maybe in reverse.


12 posted on 06/11/2023 2:44:11 PM PDT by Brilliant
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What is this? You're confusing the issue by doing critical thinking. We are supposed to be scared of extra doctors and nurses and demand fewer doctors and nurses at the facilities that overlook our health. Boycott them if we have to.
13 posted on 06/11/2023 2:48:58 PM PDT by BipolarBob (I was going to start procrastinating this year, I just haven't got around to it.)
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To: ConservativeMind

Exactly.


14 posted on 06/11/2023 2:50:29 PM PDT by Rusty0604 (Desperately looking for new conspiracy theories as all the old ones have come truep)
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To: ConservativeMind
typcially throwing nurses under the bus.....clearly the more patient load the more stress the nurse is under because every single task that housekeeping , respiratory therapy, or physical therapy or the pharmacy doesn't want to do, you guessed it, it falls on the registered nurse....

walk your patients, mix their IV drugs, start their IVS, give them breathing treatments and administer inhalants, and don't forget to change their beds and wash out the commode...

we had great respiratory therapists and physical therapists where I worked but they come and they go....they are not responsible for the well being the patient at all except for the brief times they see them which indeed is brief...

15 posted on 06/11/2023 2:58:26 PM PDT by cherry
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To: ConservativeMind

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“There are situations that we have seen [during the COVID crisis] that I believe deserve prosecution for murder,” expressed Attorney Warner Mendenhall.

“We have to have very good evidence before a prosecutor will step up. But there are cases where we now believe there are healthcare personnel who murdered their patients.”

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16 posted on 06/11/2023 3:08:29 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: cherry

I have had the good fortune that my docs like me (so far), because I minimize manageable symptoms. But they are not supposed to discriminate. Mmm, how’d that happen?


17 posted on 06/11/2023 3:12:35 PM PDT by Bethaneidh
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To: BipolarBob

The article seems to contradict itself toward the very end.
One of the last sentences ends with:

“..higher levels of registered nurses per bed are associated with lower mortality.”


18 posted on 06/11/2023 3:28:25 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: BipolarBob

For every extra BED a physician is responsible dor the increase mortality is 4%. 7% for every extra BED a nurse is responsible for. This is where the hospital administrators who are no clinical are evil. They demand we doctors and their employees the nurses work more than safe or threaten their job or our contracts.

This would be like saying airline pilots are going to be pushed to be awake 30 hours and no relief. The headline is misleading however.


19 posted on 06/11/2023 4:10:54 PM PDT by gas_dr (Conditions of Socratic debate: Intelligence, Candor, and Good Will)
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To: TexasGator; ConservativeMind; All

This is an example of reading comprehension.

Article means that when there is a higher amount of patients to doctors the mortality rate rises by 4%.

For Nurses 7%.

It does not mean when there are more Doctors or Nurses there is a higher mortality rate.


20 posted on 06/11/2023 4:12:45 PM PDT by Bayard
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