Public Release: 2-Mar-2016 Nurse staffing levels key to keeping rehospitalizations down for hip/knee surgery patients The cross-sectional study analyzed data from 112,000 Medicare patients in nearly 500 US hospitals University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing

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Public Release: 2-Mar-2016
Nurse staffing levels key to keeping rehospitalizations down for hip/knee surgery patients
The cross-sectional study analyzed data from 112,000 Medicare patients in nearly 500 US hospitals
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing

A new study from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing's Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research (CHOPR) shows that patients, who undergo elective hip and knee surgery in hospitals with inadequate nurse staffing and poor nurse work environments, are more likely to require re-hospitalization.

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