TY - JOUR T1 - Higher nurse staffing levels associated with reductions in unplanned readmissions to intensive care or operating theatre, and in postoperative in-hospital mortality in heart surgery patients JF - Evidence Based Nursing JO - Evid Based Nurs DO - 10.1136/eb-2012-100893 SP - ebnurs-2012-100893 AU - Steven A Frost AU - Evan Alexandrou Y1 - 2012/11/01 UR - http://ebn.bmj.com/content/early/2012/11/08/eb-2012-100893.abstract N2 - Commentary on: Diya L, Van den Heede K, Sermeus W, Lesaffre E. The relationship between in-hospital mortality, readmission into the intensive care nursing unit and/or operating theatre and nurse staffing levels. J Adv Nurs 2012;68:1073–81. Higher nurse staffing levels for postoperative care of cardiac surgery patients reduces the risk of unplanned re-admission to the intensive care or operating theatre and in-hospital mortality. Larger international studies are needed to assess the effect of nurse staffing levels and risk of hospital-wide adverse events. The effect of nurse staffing levels associated with adverse events in the hospital setting has been an important area of patient safety research. Market forces, in particular in North America, have resulted in efforts to reduce costs in … ER -