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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Nurs Stud. 2017 Aug 24;78:10–15. doi: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2017.08.004

Table 3.

Adjusted model estimating the mediating effect of missed care in the association between nurse staffing and 30-day inpatient mortality (Model 4).

30-day Inpatient mortality
Missed Care
Estimate Posterior SD Lower 2.5% CI Upper 2.5% CI Estimate Posterior SD Lower 2.5% CI Upper 2.5% CI
Model 4
Missed care 0.050 0.023 0.005 0.093 – – – –
Nurse staffing 0.013 0.010 −0.006 0.032 0.100 0.016 0.070 0.133
Nurse education −0.033 0.010 −0.052 −0.011 – – – –
Indirect effect 0.005 0.002 0.000 0.010 – – – –

The model is adjusted for hospital characteristics (bed size, teaching status, and technology), practice environment, patient characteristics (age, sex, admission type, type of surgery, and comorbidities present on admission). SD = Standard Deviation CI = Credibility Interval (Bayesian estimator).