The Lancet. Global health
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The Lancet. Global health · Aug 2021
Hospital nurse staffing and patient outcomes in Chile: a multilevel cross-sectional study.
Unrest in Chile over inequalities has underscored the need to improve public hospitals. Nursing has been overlooked as a solution to quality and access concerns, and nurse staffing is poor by international standards. Using Chile's new diagnosis-related groups system and surveys of nurses and patients, we provide information to policy makers on feasibility, net costs, and estimated improved outcomes associated with increasing nursing resources in public hospitals. ⋯ For the Spanish translation of the abstract see Supplementary Materials section.