Nursing Unit Design, Nursing Staff Communication Networks, and Patient Falls: Are They Related?

TL;DR: The lack of accurate and consistent patient fall risk assessments, use of benzodiazepines as a sedative and the staff skill mix were contributors to the fall rate in these hospitals.

TL;DR: The results suggest that nursing units represent what Barker (1968) termed dynamic behavior settings in which multiple nursing staff must constantly adjust to various circumstances, primarily through communication, to preserve the functional integrity of the units, thus producing the observed stability over time of nine network metrics.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors proposed a structural model of an aggregate loss distribution across multiple cyberattacks on a prototypical hospital network and contextualized the problem in the probabilistic graph-theoretical framework using a percolation model and combinatorial techniques to compute the mean and variance of the loss distribution.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used social network analysis (SNA) to study relationships between nursing staff communication patterns and patient outcomes and reported on unit communication and outcome changes that occurred during the Ebola virus disease (EVD) natural disaster time period on the 10 hospital units that had data collected before, during and after the crisis period.

TL;DR: The aim of this study was to describe the relationship between the clinical spatial environment and its effect on communication patterns, nurse satisfaction, distance walked, organizational outcomes, patient safety, and patient satisfaction.

TL;DR: It is revealed that frequency of communication as a measure of interdependencies between ED clinicians varies by day/night shift and over time, and SNA measurement techniques provide a comprehensive view of ED communication patterns.

TL;DR: The close correspondence between targeted visibility pattern and aggregated behavior patterns indicates that medical staff members are attentive to the relative visual information of environments.

TL;DR: This study reanalyzes the data from a study by Leaf, Homel, and Factor (2010) titled “Relationship between ICU Design and Mortality” by adopting and developing objective visibility measures.