Healthcare Workforce and Quality Outcomes: Lessons from Chile, United States, and Europe

In this project, Penn faculty and staff work with their primary Chilean partner, the School of Nursing at Universidad de los Andes to lay the groundwork to do a full-scale replication of a Penn-Nursing-led research design developed over the past 20 years. The project aims produce empirical evidence of hospital performance and factors associated with better patient outcomes in Chile including patient to nurse staffing ratio, relationships between doctors and nurses, quality and safety assessments, reports of the frequency of adverse patient outcomes such as infections, and so forth.