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Research Challenges Belief that Quick Response Increases Patient's Chances: Article Review



Research Challenges Belief that Quick Response Increases Patient's Chances: Article Review

The severity of illness in hospital inpatients has increased. However, the majority of these patients are still being cared for on general wards, and only the critically ill are admitted to the ICU. Despite caring for more seriously ill patients, nurse-to-patient ratios and the level of training for nurses and doctors on these wards usually remain the same. In the authors' experience, nurse-to-patient ratios are based on the number of patients a nurse may be required to look ...