Effects of Hospital Care Environment on Patient Mortality and Nurse Outcomes

Aiken, Linda H.; Clarke, Sean P.; Sloane, Douglas M.; Lake, Eileen T.; Cheney, Timothy

doi:10.1097/nna.0b013e3181aeb4cf

articleJONA The Journal of Nursing AdministrationJul 1, 2009Closed access

Effects of Hospital Care Environment on Patient Mortality and Nurse Outcomes

LHLinda H. Aiken SPSean P. Clarke DMDouglas M. Sloane ETEileen T. Lake TCTimothy Cheney

University of Pennsylvania · Centre for Nursing Innovation

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Abstract

Objective

The objective of this study was to analyze the net effects of nurse practice environments on nurse and patient outcomes after accounting for nurse staffing and education.

Background

Staffing and education have well-documented associations with patient outcomes, but evidence on the effect of care environments on outcomes has been more limited.

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Keywords

Staffing
Nursing
Medicine
Burnout
Job satisfaction
Quality (philosophy)
Acute care
Surgical nursing

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