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Nurse staffing on Belgian intensive care units: the impact of two years of COVID-19 pandemic
KCE Reports 353C (2022)
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Safe nurse staffing levels in acute hospitals
KCE Reports 325C (2019)
At the international level, it is generally accepted that patient safety in hospitals cannot be guaranteed when there are more than 8 patients per nurse. However, in Belgian hospitals, nurses have to look after 9.4 patients on average. That is already better than 10 years ago, when a study carried out by KU Leuven found that there was 1 nurse per 11 patients.
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