Resumen de Hospital Nursing Characteristics Affect Outcomes in Very-Low-Birth-Weight Infants

Karen Rosenberg

• According to this study:

  * Very-low-birth-weight infants born at hospitals with larger proportions of such infants who were black had greater odds of acquiring a nosocomial infection and being discharged when not being fed breast milk (both nursing-sensitive quality outcomes) than those born in hospitals with smaller proportions of black very-low-birth-weight infants.

  * Poorer nursing characteristics—understaffing in particular—appear to contribute to these disparities.