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Impact Of The Nurse Shortage On Hospital Patient Care: Comparative Perspectives

Overview of attention for article published in Health Affairs, May 2007
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (87th percentile)
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Article details
Title
Impact Of The Nurse Shortage On Hospital Patient Care: Comparative Perspectives
Published in
Health Affairs, May 2007
DOI 10.1377/hlthaff.26.3.853
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Abstract

National surveys of registered nurses, physicians, and hospital executives document considerable concern about the U.S. nurse shortage. Substantial proportions of respondents perceived negative impacts on care processes, hospital capacity, nursing practice, and the Institute of Medicine's six aims for improving health care systems. There were also many areas of divergent opinion within and among these groups, including the impact of the shortage on safety and early detection of patient complications. These divergences in perceptions could be important barriers to resolving the current nurse shortage and improving the quality and safety of patient care.

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 5 3%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 173 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 29 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 25 14%
Student > Bachelor 20 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 15 8%
Researcher 14 8%
Other 32 18%
Unknown 44 25%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 40 22%
Medicine and Dentistry 29 16%
Business, Management and Accounting 15 8%
Social Sciences 14 8%
Computer Science 7 4%
Other 24 13%
Unknown 50 28%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 August 2022.
All research outputs
#4,554,273
of 32,185,128 outputs
Outputs from Health Affairs
#4,205
of 6,944 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#14,054
of 117,596 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Health Affairs
#16
of 30 outputs
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