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ArticleMedical care research and review : MCRR2020

Association of Patient Acuity and Missed Nursing Care in U.S. Neonatal Intensive Care Units.

Eileen T Lake, Douglas O Staiger, Emily Cramer, Linda A Hatfield, Jessica G Smith, Beatrice J Kalisch, Jeannette A Rogowski

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Article in Medical care research and review : MCRR, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Eileen T LakeUniversity of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Philadelphia, PA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8823-3436
Douglas O StaigerDartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.
Emily CramerUniversity of Kansas School of Nursing, Kansas City, KS, USA.
Linda A HatfieldUniversity of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Jessica G SmithUniversity of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Beatrice J KalischUniversity of Michigan School of Nursing, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Jeannette A RogowskiRutgers School of Public Health, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.

Funding

ADVANCED TRAINING IN NURSING OUTCOMES RESEARCHT32NR007104 · NINR · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI JACQUELINE MARGO BROOKS CARTHON, EILEEN T LAKE · 1999 to 2026
$11.6M
NICU Performance: Missed Nursing Care and Infant OutcomesR01HS024918 · AHRQ · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI LAKE, EILEEN T · 2016 to 2019
$1.6M
AHRQ HHS R01 HS024918NINR NIH HHS T32 NR007104
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The health outcomes of infants in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) may be jeopardized when required nursing care is missed. This correlational study of missed care in a U.S. NICU sample adds national scope and an important explanatory variable, patient acuity. Using 2016 NICU registered nurse survey responses (

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Intensive Care Units, NeonatalPatient AcuityFemaleHumansInfantInfant, NewbornMaleNursing Staff, HospitalSurveys and QuestionnairesUnited StatesWorkloadmissed nursing careneonatal intensive carenurse work environmentnurse workloadpatient acuity

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PMID30362882
PMCPMC6739170

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