[ConservativeMind]

This sounds like a good reason to get out of the hospital as fast as possible.

[ConservativeMind]

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[MayflowerMadam]

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

[pops88]

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

[BipolarBob]

(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.

[TexasGator]

FR requires posting actual headline!

[TexasGator]

“(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.

[PeterPrinciple]

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.

[Brilliant]

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.

[Rusty0604]

Exactly.

[cherry]

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...

[Bayard]

Title is gore, btw. t is a confusing way to word how more patients to doctors means they die more.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

My husband had to be in the hospital overnight.

They had some sort of staffing problem and were not able to provide the level of care he needed. I stayed overnight and was able to fill in the gaps. This was not skilled care but basic care.

If your loved one has to be in the hospital then stay with them.