Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, School of Dentistry, Pusan National University, Yangsan, Korea; (Bio)medical Research Institute, Pusan National University Hospital, Busan, Korea.
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, School of Dentistry, Pusan National University, Yangsan, Korea; Institute of Translational Dental Sciences & Dental Research Institute, Pusan National University, Yangsan, Korea. Electronic address: Omsljy@pusan.ac.kr.
Pain Research, MSk Lab, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom.
Division of Neurological Pain Research and Therapy, Department of Neurology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel, Germany.
Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, University Hospital Muenster, Münster, Germany.
Department of Neurophysiology, Mannheim Center for Translational Neuroscience MCTN, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Ruprecht Karls University, Heidelberg, Germany.
INSERM U-987, Centre d'Evaluation et de Traitement de la Douleur, CHU Ambroise Paré, Boulogne-Billancourt, France, Université Versailles-Saint-Quentin, Versailles, France.
INSERM U-987, Centre d'Evaluation et de Traitement de la Douleur, CHU Ambroise Paré, Boulogne-Billancourt, France, Université Versailles-Saint-Quentin, Versailles, France.
The Workload Indicators of Staffing Need (WISN) human resource planning and management tool developed by Shipp (1998) and popularized by the World Health Organization gives health managers a way to an...
This study aimed to assess the current workload and staffing need of staff nurses for rural hospitals in Darjeeling district, West Bengal....
Primary data were collected by interviews with nursing personnel using a semi-structured interview schedule. Secondary data were obtained from available records at the rural hospitals. Workload compon...
WISN findings highlighted varying degrees of health worker shortages and inequities in their distribution at different health facilities. WISN ratio indicated that the work pressure of health staff wa...
WISN method can help policy-makers in optimizing utilization of existing human resources. There is a need to adopt flexible health workforce planning and recruitment policy to manage the patient load ...
This study examines how measures of staffing-turnover and instability-are associated with one another and how they independently contribute to quality of care in nursing homes....
Cross-sectional analysis of 2021-2022 administrative data. Data included the Payroll Based Journal for daily staffing information, merged with Nursing Home Care Compare (NHCC) data for nursing home ch...
A total of 11,840 nursing homes nationally reporting data on daily staffing and staffing turnover....
We explored correlations between measures of staffing and estimated facility-level regression models with robust standard errors. The dependent variables were indicators of nursing home quality includ...
For the 11,840 nursing homes in the study, there was a weak positive correlation between turnover and instability, with some overlap between nursing homes with high instability and high turnover. Regr...
Instability and turnover in total nursing home staffing independently contribute to nursing home quality. This suggests that adding measures of staffing instability to the existing measures of average...
Staffing shortages at nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic may have impacted care providers' staffing hours and affected residents' care and outcomes. This study examines the association of staf...
This study measured staffing hours per resident using payroll data and measured weekly resident deaths and staffing shortages using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Healthcare...
15,212 nursing homes....
The primary outcomes included staffing hours per resident of registered nurses (RNs), licensed practical nurses (LPNs), and certified nursing assistants (CNAs) and weekly total deaths per 100 resident...
Between May 31, 2020, and May 15, 2022, 18.4% to 33.3% of nursing homes reported staffing shortages during any week. Staffing shortages were associated with lower staffing hours per resident with a 0....
Our results showed that self-reported staffing shortages were associated with a statistically significant decrease in staffing hours and with a statistically significant increase in resident deaths. T...
Health care organizations have struggled to establish par levels of risk management personnel needed to effectively accomplish risk management functions. This study set out to determine whether a par ...
To identify interprofessional staffing pattern clusters used in U.S. ICUs....
Latent class analysis....
Adult U.S. ICUs....
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We used data from a staffing survey that queried respondents (...
We identified three clusters as optimal. Most ICUs (54.2%) were in cluster 1 ("higher overall staffing") characterized by a higher likelihood of good provider coverage (both intensivist [onsite 24 hr/...
More than half of U.S. ICUs had higher staffing overall. Others tended to have either higher provider presence and nursing leadership or higher bedside nursing support, but not both....
Scheduling flexibility and predictability to the end of a clinical workday are strategies aimed at addressing physician burnout. A voluntary relief shift was created to increase the pool of anesthesio...
Repeatedly solving nurse scheduling problems is one of the most difficult and time-consuming tasks for nurse managers. Although software solutions exist to solve nurse scheduling problems automaticall...
Health centers are vital primary care safety nets for underserved populations, but optimal clinician staffing associated with quality care is unclear. Understanding the association of clinician staffi...
To describe the association of clinician staffing models and ratios with quality-of-care metrics in health centers....
This cross-sectional study of US health centers used data from the 2022 Health Resources and Services Administration Uniform Data System (UDS)....
Clinician staffing ratios, expressed as the fraction of full-time equivalents (FTEs) per 1000 visits of physicians, advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs), and physician associates (PAs) to total...
Percentage of eligible patients receiving the corresponding service or outcome for 14 individual clinical quality metrics collected by the UDS, including infant immunizations; screening for cancer, de...
This analysis of 791 health centers serving 16 114 842 patients (56.6% female) identified 5 clinician staffing models: balanced (similar FTEs of physicians, APRNs, and PAs; 152 [19.2%] of health cente...
In this cross-sectional study of health centers, physician FTE ratio was associated with higher performance in cancer screening, infant vaccinations, and HIV testing; APRN FTE ratio was associated wit...
Ambulatory staffing to workload based on visit volume in an outpatient setting is an elusive formula, and the literature describing such processes is limited. One health system tasked a multidisciplin...