Needleman J., et. al. (NEJM, 2002) found that the higher
the proportion of care provided by registered
nurses the shorter the length of stay in the hospital, the lower the rate of urinary tract infections and upper gastrointestinal
bleeding, and the
lower the rate of pneumonia, shock, cardiac arrest and "failure to rescue".
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