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Thursday, 24 April 2014

Nurses' experience key to better patient care, study says

Patients may get the best care when treated in hospital units staffed by highly experienced nurses, a new study shows.

Researchers analyzed data from more than 900,000 patients admitted over four years to U.S. Veterans Administration hospitals and found that for each one-year increase in the average tenure of registered nurses in a hospital unit, patients spent 1.3 percent less time in the hospital.

The study appears in the current issue of American Economic Journal: Applied Economics:
Human Capital and Productivity in a Team Environment: Evidence from the Healthcare Sector

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