According
to a recently published study, that difference in particular has a
significant impact on patient death rates in European hospitals.
Results
of the Europe-wide study of hospitals and nurses, published in the
Lancet medical journal, highlighted two factors that correlated with
variations in patient mortality in surgical wards. One was the number of
patients per nurse. The other was the percentage of the nursing staff
educated at a university to bachelor’s degree level. Read more
