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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 2.

Pooled Odds Ratios for Each Individual Variable

Outcome # Obs. Model OR P Lower CI Upper CI I2
Nurse job outcomes
 Burnout 17 RE 0.74 < 0.01 0.64 0.85 93.1
 Job dissatisfaction 16 RE 0.68 < 0.01 0.62 0.73 88.4
 Intention to leave 8 RE 0.72 < 0.01 0.65 0.80 73.7
Patient health record–based outcomes
 30 d mortality 3 FE 0.92 < 0.01 0.90 0.95 60.4
 Patient adverse events 3 FE 0.92 < 0.01 0.89 0.95 0.0
Patient satisfaction
 Patient rates hospital highly 3 FE 1.16 < 0.01 1.08 1.25 21.6
Nurse assessments of quality and safety
 Not confident patients can manage care on discharge 12 RE 0.78 < 0.01 0.74 0.82 64.6
 Fair/poor ward quality 15 RE 0.67 < 0.01 0.60 0.75 86.1
 Poor/failing safety grade 3 FE 0.49 < 0.01 0.44 0.55 0.0

CI indicates confidence interval; FE, fixed effects; Obs., observations; OR, odds ratio; RE, random effects.