Lower patient-to-nurse ratios hold promise for preventing unnecessary hospital readmissions for children through more effective predischarge monitoring of patient conditions, improved discharge preparation and enhanced quality improvement success.
Yes, that's at least partially a marketing ploy, but Apple has recently had a lot of battery improvement success with both the iPad and newer MacBooks.
More research indicates which aspects are 'conditions for improvement', which influence improvement success.
Such research can provide a better understanding of how contextual factors influence improvement processes, which in turn can help practitioners manage factors important for improvement success [ 17, 18].
However, despite these positive reports there is some scepticism over whether the introduction of a checklist on its own is the single greatest factor attributable to improvement success.
Our findings are broadly consistent with those of a recent systematic review of factors influencing quality improvement success in health care (Table 4; Kaplan et al, 2010).
After a full-text review, another 35 articles were excluded by the criteria that neither large-scale quality improvement, success criteria nor lean thinking were issued.
Leadership by upper management is crucial for quality improvement success, but little is known about the specific actions that leaders should take and how these actions affect lower organizational levels, such as the microsystem and team levels [ 53].
Prior research shows that hospitals with better nurse staffing ratios deliver Joint Commission-recommended care for key conditions more reliably, 52 highlighting the inter-relationship of nurse staffing levels and quality improvement success.
In other words, our study suggests that both the existence of a specified set of contextual factors, and the mechanisms by which these contextual factors reciprocally affect each other, are relevant for quality improvement success [ 54].
