Electronic medical records, nurse staffing, and nurse-sensitive patient outcomes: Evidence from California Hospitals, 1998-2007

Social Sciences

• Medical records 100%
• staffing 88%
• nurse 65%
• electronics 58%
• evidence 35%
• staffing level 30%
• costs 29%
• discharge patients 18%
• mortality 17%
• financial disclosure 17%
• acute care hospitals 16%
• health planning 13%
• General Terms 12%
• nursing 8%
• demand 7%
• regression 6%

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Electronic Health Records 86%
• Workforce 81%
• Nurses 61%
• Costs and Cost Analysis 29%
• Licensed Practical Nurses 19%
• Length of Stay 18%
• Health Planning 15%
• Databases 14%
• Hospital Costs 13%
• Patient Discharge 13%
• Disclosure 13%
• Hospital Mortality 11%
• Information Storage and Retrieval 10%
• Nursing 10%
• Motivation 9%
• Mortality 6%