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Nurse staffing in hospitals: is there a business case for quality?Jack Needleman
Department of Health Services, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 25:204-11. 2006..5 percent or less at the staffing levels modeled. Whether or not staffing should be increased depends on the value patients and payers assign to avoided deaths and complications...
The role of nurses in improving hospital quality and efficiency: real-world resultsJack Needleman
Department of Health Services, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 28:w625-33. 2009....- A crossover randomized prospective pilot study evaluating a central venous catheter team in reducing catheter-related bloodstream infections in pediatric oncology patientsRita Secola
Children s Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90027, USA
J Pediatr Oncol Nurs 29:307-15. 2012..This advantage is mitigated by an increased risk of bloodstream infections (BSIs). Despite the ubiquitous use of CVCs, few prospective studies have been conducted to address infection prevention strategies in pediatric oncology patients... 
Measuring hospital quality: can medicare data substitute for all-payer data?Jack Needleman
Department of Health Services, UCLA School of Public Health, 90095 1772, USA
Health Serv Res 38:1487-508. 2003..To assess whether adverse outcomes in Medicare patients can be used as a surrogate for measures from all patients in quality-of-care research using administrative datasets...- The relationship between the volume and type of transforming care at the bedside innovations and changes in nurse vitalityValda V Upenieks
School of Nursing, Nursing Administration Graduate Program, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095 6917, USA
J Nurs Adm 38:386-94. 2008..The findings of this evaluation yielded several important implications for nurse leaders... - Is what's good for the patient good for the hospital? Aligning incentives and the business case for nursingJack Needleman
Department of Health Services, University of California, Los Angeles School of Public Health, CA, USA
Policy Polit Nurs Pract 9:80-7. 2008..Current proposals for pay for performance would create limited incentives for improving hospital nursing care... - Nurse staffing and inpatient hospital mortalityJack Needleman
Department of Health Services, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health, Los Angeles, USA
N Engl J Med 364:1037-45. 2011..However, such studies have been criticized because they have not shown a direct link between the level of staffing and individual patient experiences and have not included sufficient statistical controls... - Feasibility of the use of a reliable and valid central venous catheter blood draw bundle checklistRita Secola
Children s Hospital Los Angeles, 4650 Sunset Blvd 54, Los Angeles, CA 90027, USA
J Nurs Care Qual 27:218-25. 2012.... - The effect of neonatal intensive care level and hospital volume on mortality of very low birth weight infantsJudith H Chung
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of California, Irvine, Orange, CA 92868, USA
Med Care 48:635-44. 2010..To determine the adjusted effect of hospital level of care and volume on mortality of very low birth weight (VLBW) infants in the state of California, where deregionalization of perinatal care has occurred... - Performance measurement of nursing care: state of the science and the current consensusJack Needleman
UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Med Care Res Rev 64:10S-43S. 2007..Each of these tasks requires substantial development work and construction and maintenance of the infrastructure to sustain the performance measurement efforts... - Anesthesia provider model, hospital resources, and maternal outcomesJack Needleman
Department of Health Services, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Health Serv Res 44:464-82. 2009..Determine the ability of anesthesia provider model and hospital resources to explain maternal outcome variation... - The effect of changes in hospital reimbursement on nurse staffing decisions at safety net and nonsafety net hospitalsRichard C Lindrooth
Department of Health Administration and Policy, Medical University of South Carolina, 151 Rutledge Ave, Building B, P.O. Box 250961, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
Health Serv Res 41:701-20. 2006..In contrast, safety net hospitals did not respond to the provisions of the BBA by reducing staffing ratios. This conclusion is tempered by the fact that we have few safety net hospitals in the sample... - Impact of nursing overtime on nurse-sensitive patient outcomes in New York hospitals, 1995-2000Barbara Berney
School of Health Sciences, Hunter College, New York
Policy Polit Nurs Pract 7:87-100. 2006..Because overtime use is episodic and unit specific, further study of these issues using data that examines the occurrence of adverse events by unit during periods of heavy nurse overtime is recommended... - The association between nursing factors and patient mortality in the Veterans Health Administration: the view from the nursing unit levelAnne Sales
Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Med Care 46:938-45. 2008..Nursing care is delivered in geographically-based units, with wide variation in staffing levels. In particular, staffing in intensive care is much richer than in nonintensive care acute units... - Spreading nursing unit innovation in large hospital systemsMarjorie L Pearson
THE RAND CORPORATION, Santa Monica, California 90401, USA
J Nurs Adm 38:146-52. 2008..Although clear differences were evident in the way they engineered their spread, many similarities also were found... - Complication rates on weekends and weekdays in US hospitalsEran Bendavid
Center for Health Policy, Stanford Medical School, Stanford, Calif 94305, USA
Am J Med 120:422-8. 2007..Recent studies and anecdotal evidence suggest that patient safety may be compromised on weekends. Our objective was to determine whether rates of complications in hospitals are higher on weekends than on weekdays... - Trends in nurse overtime, 1995-2002Barbara Berney
School of Health Sciences, Hunter College, New York, USA
Policy Polit Nurs Pract 6:183-90. 2005.... - Factors influencing the use of registered nurse overtime in hospitals, 1995-2000Barbara Berney
Hunter College, New York, NY, USA
J Nurs Scholarsh 37:165-72. 2005..To assess nurse overtime in acute care general hospitals and the factors that influence overtime among various hospitals and in the same hospitals from year to year... - Nurse staffing and patient safety: current knowledge and implications for actionJack Needleman
Int J Qual Health Care 15:275-7. 2003 - Nursing burnout and patient safetyChristine Kovner
JAMA 289:550; author reply 550-1. 2003 - Strengthening hospital nursingPeter I Buerhaus
Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 21:123-32. 2002..These findings have policy implications for strengthening the nursing profession, monitoring the quality of hospital care associated with nursing, and improving the relationship between hospitals and the nursing profession... - Nurse-staffing levels and the quality of care in hospitalsJack Needleman
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass 02115, USA
N Engl J Med 346:1715-22. 2002..It is uncertain whether lower levels of staffing by nurses at hospitals are associated with an increased risk that patients will have complications or die...
Research Grants
- Hospital Nurses' Working Conditions and Patient OutcomesJack Needleman; Fiscal Year: 2003....