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AHA Nurse Staffing Study In JAMA Underscores Need For Quantitative Tools

Quantros Clients Measure Risk With Web-Based Staffing Effectiveness & Patient Safety Tools

The recent Journal of the American Medical Association article "Hospital Nurse Staffing and Patient Mortality, Nurse Burnout, and Job Dissatisfaction" concluded that in hospitals with high patient-to-nurse ratios, surgical patients experience higher mortality and nurses are more likely to experience burnout and job dissatisfaction.

While many hospitals struggle to determine safe staffing levels, healthcare organizations that have licensed Quantros' real-time, web-based staffing effectiveness and patient safety tools are able to quantitatively measure and correlate the effects of nurse staffing on medication errors, complaints, infections, and other key indictors of quality and safety.

"The American Hospital Association study in JAMA points out the strong relationship that nurse staffing has on patient care but stops short of recommending universal staffing levels. Our Staffing Effectiveness Solution gives individual hospitals an easy-to-use tool to determine how their nurse vacancy, overtime, per-diem usage, and other staffing measures impact patient safety and satisfaction in their own settings," said Rajnish Mishra, President and CEO of Quantros.

Quantros, a leading provider of knowledge creation solutions for the healthcare industry, launched the first-to-market HR2.1 Staffing Effectiveness Solution in July to ease the burden of complying with the new Joint Commission (JCAHO) requirement for hospitals to collect and trend staffing effectiveness indicator data. In addition to meeting JCAHO survey requirements, the tool has proven instrumental in helping hospital leaders understand - and quantitatively communicate - the relationship between staffing and patient safety.

"In the past we relied on our professional instincts to tell us when staffing shortages were impacting employee morale and patient care. With the Quantros Staffing Effectiveness Solution, I have the quantitative reports and graphs that the hospital's leadership team and I need to make decisions in this area," said Jeanette Weinberg, Director of Performance Improvement at Methodist Hospital of Southern California.

The Quantros HR2.1 Staffing Effectiveness Solution combines web-based data collection with real-time analysis, reporting, and benchmarking on over twenty-five key staffing, patient safety, quality, and satisfaction indicators.

About Quantros

Founded in 1996, Quantros provides real-time knowledge creation solutions for benchmarking, patient safety, accreditation and compliance, and outcomes monitoring for leading healthcare providers, payers, and pharmaceutical manufacturers. Quantros' web delivered applications provide a standard platform for automating resource intensive manual processes. Through a variety of direct sales and vendor partners, nearly 700 hospitals are licensed to use Quantros' web-based technology solutions.