Hospital nurse staffing and sepsis protocol compliance and outcomes among patients with sepsis in the USA: a multistate cross-sectional analysis

ObjectivesSepsis is a serious inflammatory response to infection with a high death rate. Timely and effective treatment may improve sepsis outcomes resulting in mandatory sepsis care protocol adherence reporting. How the impact of patient-to-nurse staffing compares to sepsis protocol compliance and...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
Veröffentlicht in:BMJ open Jg. 12; H. 3; S. e056802
Hauptverfasser: Dierkes, Andrew M, Aiken, Linda H, Sloane, Douglas M, Cimiotti, Jeannie P, Riman, Kathryn A, McHugh, Matthew D
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: England British Medical Journal Publishing Group 22.03.2022
BMJ Publishing Group LTD
BMJ Publishing Group
Schriftenreihe:Original research
Schlagworte:
Aged
Clinical outcomes
Cross-Sectional Studies
Disease control
Guideline Adherence
health policy
Health Services Research
Hospital Mortality
Hospitals
Humans
Intensive care
Medicare
Mortality
Nurses
Nursing Staff, Hospital
organisation of health services
Patient compliance
Patients
Personnel Staffing and Scheduling
Polls & surveys
quality in health care
Ratios
Response rates
Sepsis
Sepsis - therapy
United States - epidemiology
Variables
Workforce
Workforce planning
United States
New York
United States > US
Illinois
California
Florida
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
organisation of health services
quality in health care
health policy
ISSN:2044-6055, 2044-6055
Online-Zugang:Volltext
Tags: Tag hinzufügen
Keine Tags, Fügen Sie den ersten Tag hinzu!
Beschreibung
Zusammenfassung:ObjectivesSepsis is a serious inflammatory response to infection with a high death rate. Timely and effective treatment may improve sepsis outcomes resulting in mandatory sepsis care protocol adherence reporting. How the impact of patient-to-nurse staffing compares to sepsis protocol compliance and patient outcomes is not well understood. This study aimed to determine the association between hospital sepsis protocol compliance, patient-to-nurse staffing ratios and patient outcomes.DesignA cross-sectional study examining hospital nurse staffing, sepsis protocol compliance and sepsis patient outcomes, using linked data from nurse (2015–2016, 2020) and hospital (2017) surveys, and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Hospital Compare (2017) and corresponding MedPAR patient claims.Setting537 hospitals across six US states (California, Florida, Pennsylvania, New York, Illinois and New Jersey).Participants252 699 Medicare inpatients with sepsis present on admission.MeasuresThe explanatory variables are nurse staffing and SEP-1 compliance. Outcomes are mortality (within 30 and 60 days of index admission), readmissions (within 7, 30, and 60 days of discharge), admission to the intensive care unit (ICU) and lengths of stay (LOS).ResultsSepsis protocol compliance and nurse staffing vary widely across hospitals. Each additional patient per nurse was associated with increased odds of 30-day and 60-day mortality (9% (OR 1.09, 95% CI 1.05 to 1.13) and 10% (1.10, 95% CI 1.07 to 1.14)), 7-day, 30-day and 60-day readmission (8% (OR 1.08, 95% CI 1.05 to 1.11, p<0.001), 7% (OR 1.07, 95% CI 1.05 to 1.10, p<0.001), 7% (OR 1.07, 95% CI 1.05 to 1.10, p<0.001)), ICU admission (12% (OR 1.12, 95% CI 1.03 to 1.22, p=0.007)) and increased relative risk of longer LOS (10% (OR 1.10, 95% CI 1.08 to 1.12, p<0.001)). Each 10% increase in sepsis protocol compliance was associated with shorter LOS (2% ([OR 0.98, 95% CI 0.97 to 0.99, p<0.001)) only.ConclusionsOutcomes are more strongly associated with improved nurse staffing than with increased compliance with sepsis protocols.
Bibliographie:Original research
ObjectType-Article-1
SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1
ObjectType-Feature-2
content type line 14
content type line 23
ISSN:2044-6055
2044-6055
DOI:10.1136/bmjopen-2021-056802