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Dr. Linda Aiken demonstrates that hospital working conditions and adequacy of nurse staffing per patient can affect patients' recovery. In hospitals where nurses have lower patient workloads, patients have substantially lower mortality rates.
In later work, Dr. Aiken and collaborators discover that increases in the numbers of nurses on staff with bachelor's degrees lowers the likelihood of patient death.
