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Variations in nursing care quality across hospitals.

November 4, 2009

Lucero RJ, Lake ET, Aiken LH. J Adv Nurs. 2009;65(11):2299-310.

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This secondary analysis of a 1999 survey of registered nurses discovered that two of seven necessary nursing activities were left undone due to lack of time to complete them on a given shift. Investigators analyzed these activities and attributed the differences in nursing care quality with variation in the quality of hospital care environments.

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