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Safe staffing for nursing in adult inpatient wards in acute hospitals

  • Safe staffing guideline
  • Reference number: SG1
  • Published:  15 July 2014
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Evidence

Review and download supporting evidence. Includes the full guideline if available.

Supporting evidence

  • Evidence review

  • Evidence reviews - July 2014

  • Evidence review 1: The association between patient safety outcomes and nurse/healthcare assistant skill mix and staffing levels and factors that may influence staffing requirements (PDF 1.49 MB)

    Published:
    15 July 2014
  • Evidence review 2: Effectiveness of management approaches and organisational factors on nurse sensitive outcomes (PDF 2.26 MB)

    Published:
    15 July 2014
  • Appendix 1: Evidence to recommendations tables (PDF 591 KB)

    Published:
    15 July 2014
  • Expert reports

  • Expert paper 1: Expert testimony presented to the Safe Staffing Advisory Committee (PDF 358 KB)

    Published:
    15 July 2014
  • Expert paper 2: Patient testimony presented to the Safe Staffing Advisory Committee (PDF 75 KB)

    Published:
    15 July 2014
  • Expert paper 3: Report from the Safe Staffing Advisory Committee sub-group meeting 11 April 2014 (PDF 508 KB)

    Published:
    15 July 2014
  • Fieldwork

  • Field testing summary report (PDF 439 KB)

    Published:
    15 July 2014
  • Economic analysis

  • Economic analysis (PDF 1.97 MB)

    Published:
    15 July 2014