Table 2:
Comparison hospitals (n=28) |
Intervention hospitals (n=27) |
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Baseline | Post-implementation | Total | Baseline | Post-implementation | Total | |
Patient outcomes | ||||||
30-day mortality, deaths per cases (%) | 952/88916 (1·07%) | 1092/97086 (1·12%) | 2044/186002 (1·10%) | 2290/142986 1·60%) | 2419/160167 (1·51%) | 4709/303 153 (1·55%) |
7-day readmissions, readmissions per cases (%) | 3226/115463 (2·79%) | 3660/123778 (2·96%) | 6886/239241 (2·88) | 5208/162910 (3·20%) | 5769/178699 (3·23%) | 10 977/341609 (3·21%) |
Length of stay, mean (SD; cases) | 3·66 (3·83; 117809) | 3·51 (3·63; 126236) | 3·58 (3·73; 244045) | 3·45 (3·85; 176396) | 3·13 (3·42; 193318) | 3·29 (3·63; 369714) |
Hospital staffing | ||||||
Medical-surgical nurse staffing, mean patients per nurse (SD) | 6·13 (0·75) | 5·96 (0·98) | 6·04 (0·86) | 4·84 (1·05) | 4·37 (0·54) | 4·60 (0·80) |
Data are n/N (%), unless otherwise specified.