Cost-Effectiveness of Recommended Nurse Staffing Levels for Short-Stay Skilled Nursing Facility Patients

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Patient,
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Overview: Among patients in skilled nursing facilities for post-acute care, increased registered nurse, total licensed staff, and nurse assistant staffing is associated with a decreased rate of hospital transfer for selected diagnoses. However, the cost-effectiveness of increasing staffing to recommended levels is unknown. Using a Markov cohort simulation, the paper estimates the incremental cost-effectiveness of recommended staffing versus median staffing in patients admitted to skilled nursing facilities for post-acute care. Adopting recommended nurse staffing for short-stay nursing home patients cannot be justified on the basis of decreased hospital transfer rates alone, except in facilities with high baseline hospital transfer rates.

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Format: PDF | Size: 309KB | Date: May 2005 | Pages: 9

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