title: Increasing productivity and decreasing costs: the value of RNs.
abstract: Are increased nursing personnel or increased levels of preparation of nursing personnel major factors contributing to the sky-rocketing costs of hospital care over the past two decades? The authors discuss a comparison of staffing patterns and staffing costs at a large midwestern medical center and suggest that there is little basis for this belief.
mesh_terms: D002017:Budgets; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D004471:Economics, Nursing; D004526:Efficiency; D005376:Financial Management / Q000191:economics*; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital / Q000191:economics*; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000592:standards; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012456:Salaries and Fringe Benefits