Beth Israel publishes study suggesting nurse-staffing ratios don't help patients

Two months before voters will face a ballot question that would mandate minimum nurse staffing limits in every hospital department, researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center published a study Tuesday that finds such laws don't help patients. The study by Beth Israel physicians appeared in the journal “Critical Care Medicine,” and looked at the 2014 nurse staffing law that restricted nurses from having no more than two patients in intensive care units throughout the state. “Our results…
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