To examine the relationship between nurse staffing and patient length of stay in an acute-care hospital over a 1-year period.Although there has been prior research on the relationship between nurse staffing and length of stay in acute-care hospitals, there is a need for more information on how nurse staffing is related to length of stay longitudinally.Retrospective time-series registry data from 20 acute-care inpatient units of a Finnish university hospital as a monthly time series in 2008 were analysed by linear mixed models.The ratio of registered nurses to all nurses was 72.4

作者：Taina, Pitk?aho；Pirjo, Partanen；Merja H, Miettinen；Katri, Vehvil?inen-Julkunen

来源：Journal of nursing management 2016 年 24卷 5期