Journal
CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 47, Issue 7, Pages 937-944Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1086/591696
Keywords
-
Categories
Funding
- Massachusetts Department of Public Health
- National Institute of Nursing Research [R01 NR010107]
Ask authors/readers for more resources
In the past 10 years, many researchers have examined relationships between hospital staffing and patients' risk of health care-associated infection (HAI). To gain understanding of this evidence base, a systematic review was conducted, and 42 articles were audited. The most common infection studied was bloodstream infection (n = 18; 43%). The majority of researchers searchers examined nurse staffing (n = 38; 90%); of these, only 7 (18%) did not find a statistically significant association between nurse staffing variable(s) and HAI rates. Use of nonpermanent staff was associated with increased rates of HAI in 4 studies (P<.05). Three studies addressed infection control professional staffing with mixed results. Physician staffing was not found to be associated with patients' HAI risk (n =2). The methods employed and operational definitions used for both staffing and HAI varied; despite this variability, trends were apparent. Research characterizing effective staffing for infection control departments is needed.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available