醫院護士數量少 患者死亡風險高

Fewer Nurses Means Higher Patient Death Risk

護士數量少=死亡風險高？！

Wannaget out of the hospital alive?Well, the nursing staff has a lot to do with a study finds that a patient’s risk of dying goes up along with the number of work shifts that a hospital is understaffed in research was published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

想活着走出醫院嗎？當然，這也不是不可能，只是這與醫院看護人員有着莫大的關係。如今一研究發現，病人死亡的風險隨醫院缺少醫護人員導致的輪班次數改變而增加。此研究發表在《新英格蘭醫學雜誌》上。

The study included almost 198,000 patients, during nearly 177,000 eight-hour nursing shifts.

該研究在將近十七萬七千個八小時輪班護理的過程中，調查了大約十九萬八千名患者。

The research team originally reported that hospital nurse staffing was tied to patients’ outcomes a decade study was challenged because data were collected at several institutions, and thus had numerouspossibly confounding the current study, all data were collected at a single, large academicmedical center in the U.S.

研究團隊曾在十年前就已經發現患者的存亡率與醫院的護理人員有着密切關係。由於此前的數據是從數所醫院獲取的，其中難免會存在一些影響結果的混雜變量，所以該調查結果受到了質疑。近期調查中，所有數據都取自美國的一所獨立的大型醫療學術中心。

The researchers found that a patient’s risk of death increased byabout two percent for each work shift that was what the researchers categorized as ents in the study averaged three such shifts, which meant that their risk of dying increased by more than six percent compared with patients with access to fully staffed nursing when it comes to nurses it’s about quality—and quantity.

研究人員發現，對於那些醫護人員不足的醫院來說，每輪班一次，患者死亡的風險就會增加百分之二。調查中的患者平均由三班醫護人員護理，與那些由全職醫護人員護理的患者相比，他們的死亡風險上升了不止百分之六。因此，醫護人員保證護理質量的同時也要保證數量。