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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Med Care. 2019 May;57(5):353–361. doi: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000001109

TABLE 1.

Summary of Individual Study Characteristics

References
(Sample #)
Abbreviation in
Figure 3
Country Organizational
Level (N)
Nurses or
Patients (N)
Outcome Measures
Aiken et al19 AIK2008 USA Hospital (N = 168) Nurses (N = 10,184) Burnout
Job dissatisfaction
Intention to leave
30-d inpatient mortality
Failure-to-rescue
Not confident patients can manage care on discharge
Fair/poor ward quality
Aiken et al20 AIK2011 USA Hospital (N = 665) Patients (N = 1,262,120) 30-d inpatient mortality
Failure-to-rescue
Aiken et al21 Burnout
Job dissatisfaction
Not confident patients can manage care on discharge
Fair/poor ward quality
 0 AIK2011a USA Hospital (N = 762) Nurses (N = 39,148)
 1 AIK2011a1 China Hospital (N = 121) Nurses (N = 6571)
 2 AIK2011a2 South Korea Hospital (N = 59) Nurses (N = 4904)
 3 AIK2011a3 Thailand Hospital (N = 39) Nurses (N = 8222)
 4 AIK2011a4 Japan Hospital (N = 19) Nurses (N = 5956)
 5 AIK2011a5 New Zealand Hospital (N = 26) Nurses (N = 3944)
 6 AIK2011a6 United Kingdom Hospital (N = 60) Nurses (N = 9851)
 7 AIK2011a7 Canada Hospital (N = 293) Nurses (N = 16,844)
 8 AIK2011a8 Germany Hospital (N = 27) Nurses (N = 2676)
Aiken et al22 Burnout
Job dissatisfaction
Intention to leave
Patient rates hospital highly
Not confident patients can manage care on discharge
Fair/poor ward quality
Poor/failing safety grade
 1 AIK2012 Belgium, England, Finland, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland Hospital (N = 488) Patients (N = 11,318)
Nurses (N = 33,659)
 2 AIK2012a USA* Hospital (N = 617) Nurses (N = 27,509)
Cho et al23 CHO2015 South Korea Hospital (N = 14) Patients (N = 76,036) 30-d inpatient mortality
Coetzee et al24 COE2013 South Africa Hospital (N = 62) Nurses (N = 1187) Burnout
Job dissatisfaction
Intention to leave
Not confident patients can manage care on discharge
Fair/poor ward quality
Poor/failing safety grade
Kutney-Lee et al25 KUT2015 USA Hospital (N = 116) Patients (N = 4908) Patient rates hospital highly
Lake et al16 LAK2015 USA Nursing unit (N = 98) Patients (N = 8252) Nosocomial infection
Lake et al26 LAK2016 USA Nursing unit (N = 171) Nurses (N = 1247) Poor/failing safety grade
Liu et al27 LIU2012 China Nursing unit (N = 89) Nurses (N = 1104) Burnout
Job dissatisfaction
Intention to leave
Liu et al28 LIU2016 China Hospital (N = 134) Nurses (N = 1890) Fair/poor ward quality
Nantsupawat et al29 NAN2011 Thailand Hospital (N = 39) Nurses (N = 5247) Burnout
Job dissatisfaction
Poor/failing safety grade
Nantsupawat et al30 NAN2017 Thailand Nursing unit (N = 43) Nurses (N = 1351) Burnout
Job dissatisfaction
Intention to leave
Topcu et al31 TOP2016 Turkey Hospital (N = 49) Nurses (N = 2592) Burnout
Intention to leave
You et al32 YOU2013 China Hospital (N = 181) Patients (N = 5786)
Nurses (N = 9688)
Patient rates hospital highly
Fair/poor ward quality
Zhang et al33 ZHA2014 China Hospital (N = 181) Nurses (N = 9698) Burnout
Job dissatisfaction
Intention to leave
Zhou et al34 ZHO2015 China Hospital (N = 20) Nurses (N = 1100) Intention to leave
*

US sample used for intention to leave outcome only due to overlap of sample with Aiken et al.21