Nurse staffing and mortality in stroke centers

(PLOS) Hospital staffing levels have been associated with patient outcomes, but staffing on weekends has not been well studied. To helpaddress the paucity of research, Dr. Benjamin Bray of King's College London and Royal College of Physicians, UK, and colleagues conducted a prospective cohort study of weekend staffing with stroke specialist physicians for patients admitted to 103 stroke units in England, published in this issue of PLOS Medicine.
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