An assessment of "failure to rescue" derived from routine NHS data as a nursing sensitive patient safety indicator for surgical inpatient care
Background: 'Failure to rescue' - death after a treatable complication - is used as a nursing sensitive quality indicator in the USA. It is associated with the size of the nursing workforce relative to patient load, for example patient to nurse ratio, although assessments of nurse sensitiv...
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| Language: | English |
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2013-02-01.
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