Wednesday, August 5, 2015

According to a recent study of 5,718 inpatient stays in 8 Intensive Care Units (ICUs):


  • The risk of death increased by 3.5 when the patient-to-nurse ratio was greater than 2.5
  • The risk of death increased by 2.0 when the patient-to-physician ratio was greater than 14
  • The adjusted relative risk of death during times of high patient turnover was 5.6

Source: "Patient Mortality Is Associated With Staff Resources and Workload in the ICU: A Multicenter Observational Study," Critical Care
Medicine, abstract only, August 2015, http://journals.lww.com/ccmjournal/Abstract/2015/08000/Patient_Mortality_Is_Associated_With_Staff.5.aspx
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