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Patient deaths remain raised when temporary nurses plug staffing gaps
A large-scale study finds that using temporary staff to plug gaps does mitigate the raised patient death rate associated with nursing staff shortages, but it does not eliminate the risk. When 10% of the ward staff were temporary, bank or agency, the death rate was raised by 2.3% from baseline staffing levels, compared with 7.9% when shortages were left unaddressed, it found.
