Cost-effectiveness of eliminating hospital understaffing by nursing staff: a retrospective longitudinal study and economic evaluation
Christina Saville, Jeremy Jones, Paul Meredith, Chiara Dall’Ora, Peter Griffiths · 2025
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Christina Saville and co-authors weigh the cost of full nurse staffing in a 2025 study. Short wards harm patients and drive nurse quits, a loop that deepens the short. The team read five years of data from 185 adult wards in four English trusts. Models tied each patient's short-staff days to death, return visits, and stay length. Costs then faced health gains in money terms.
Short registered-nurse days raised death risk and stay length. Full staff for both nurse kinds cost about 2,778 pounds per health year gained. Count saved stays and the plan pays for itself with room. Temp agency fills cost more and save fewer lives than firm hires. Aim at high-risk groups first saves most, the team add.
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| CREATOR | Christina Saville, Jeremy Jones, Paul Meredith, Chiara Dall’Ora, Peter Griffiths |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 42 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |