TY  - RPRT
TI  - Safe nurse staffing levels in acute hospitals
AU  - Van den Heede Koen
AU  - Bruyneel Luk
AU  - Beeckmans Dorien
AU  - Boon Niels
AU  - Bouckaert Nicolas
AU  - Cornelis Justien
AU  - Dossche Dorien
AU  - Van de Voorde Carine
AU  - Sermeus Walter
AB  - KCE Reports 325C (2019)

At the international level, it is generally accepted that patient safety in hospitals cannot be guaranteed when there are more than 8 patients per nurse. However, in Belgian hospitals, nurses have to look after 9.4 patients on average. That is already better than 10 years ago, when a study carried out by KU Leuven found that there was 1 nurse per 11 patients.
T2  - KCE Reports
CY  - Brussels
PY  - 2019
LA  - English
M3  - Health Services Research (HSR)
PB  - Belgian Health Care Knowledge Center
SN  - 325
VO  - D/2019/10.273/75
DO  - https://doi.org/10.57598/R325C
ER -