TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gordon,Suzanne
AU  - Buchanan,John
AU  - Bretherton,Tanya
TI  - Safety in numbers: nurse-to-patient ratios and the future of health care 
SN  - 080144683X : HRD
AV  - RT85.5 .G67 2008
U1  - 362.17/30683 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - ILR Press/Cornell University Press
KW  - Nursing services
KW  - Standards
KW  - California
KW  - Australia
KW  - Victoria
KW  - Personnel management
KW  - Statistical methods
KW  - Hospitals
KW  - Administration
KW  - Ratio analysis
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Hospital restructuring and the erosion of nursing care in California and the United States -- Not out of thin air -- The hospital industry response -- Ratios redux -- Working life for nurses in the late 1990s in Australia : a snapshot -- How did it come to this? : the factors driving the intensification of nursing work -- Winning ratios in Victoria -- Evaluating the impact of ratios : an imperfect experiment -- What we know about nurse staffing -- Arguments against and alternatives to ratios
ER  -