Nurse staffing and patient care outcomes: protocol for an umbrella review to identify evidence gaps for low and middle-income countries in global literature [version 2; peer review: 3 approved]
Background: Adequate staffing is key to the delivery of nursing care and thus to improved inpatient and health service outcomes. Several systematic reviews have addressed the relationship between nurse staffing and these outcomes. Most primary studies within each systematic review are likely to be f...
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| author | Michuki Maina Jalemba Aluvaala Abdulazeez Imam Mike English David Gathara Sopuruchukwu Obiesie |
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| description | Background: Adequate staffing is key to the delivery of nursing care and thus to improved inpatient and health service outcomes. Several systematic reviews have addressed the relationship between nurse staffing and these outcomes. Most primary studies within each systematic review are likely to be from high-income countries which have different practice contexts to low and middle-income countries (LMICs), although this has not been formally examined. We propose conducting an umbrella review to characterise the existing evidence linking nurse staffing to key outcomes and explicitly aim to identify evidence gaps in nurse staffing research in LMICs. Methods and analysis: This protocol was developed using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis Protocols (PRISMA-P). Literature searching will be conducted across Ovid Medline, Embase and EBSCO Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) databases. Two independent reviewers will conduct searching and data abstraction and discordance will be handled by discussion between both parties. The risk of bias of the individual studies will be performed using the AMSTAR-2. Ethics and dissemination: Ethical permission is not required for this review as we will make use of already published data. We aim to publish the findings of our review in peer-reviewed journals. PROSPERO registration number: CRD42021286908 |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f7affd14ac9145ca85bc1dde0b040d352022-12-22T02:09:42ZengWellcomeWellcome Open Research2398-502X2022-05-01619774Nurse staffing and patient care outcomes: protocol for an umbrella review to identify evidence gaps for low and middle-income countries in global literature [version 2; peer review: 3 approved]Michuki Maina0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6874-8929Jalemba Aluvaala1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0851-3711Abdulazeez Imam2https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5070-3060Mike English3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7427-0826David Gathara4Sopuruchukwu Obiesie5https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1107-5919KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, KenyaKEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, KenyaOxford Centre for Global Health Research, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3SY, UKOxford Centre for Global Health Research, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3SY, UKMARCH Centre, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UKIndependent Researcher, Asaba, NigeriaBackground: Adequate staffing is key to the delivery of nursing care and thus to improved inpatient and health service outcomes. Several systematic reviews have addressed the relationship between nurse staffing and these outcomes. Most primary studies within each systematic review are likely to be from high-income countries which have different practice contexts to low and middle-income countries (LMICs), although this has not been formally examined. We propose conducting an umbrella review to characterise the existing evidence linking nurse staffing to key outcomes and explicitly aim to identify evidence gaps in nurse staffing research in LMICs. Methods and analysis: This protocol was developed using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis Protocols (PRISMA-P). Literature searching will be conducted across Ovid Medline, Embase and EBSCO Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) databases. Two independent reviewers will conduct searching and data abstraction and discordance will be handled by discussion between both parties. The risk of bias of the individual studies will be performed using the AMSTAR-2. Ethics and dissemination: Ethical permission is not required for this review as we will make use of already published data. We aim to publish the findings of our review in peer-reviewed journals. PROSPERO registration number: CRD42021286908https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/6-363/v2Developing countries Nurses quality of care patient care ward staffingeng |
| spellingShingle | Michuki Maina Jalemba Aluvaala Abdulazeez Imam Mike English David Gathara Sopuruchukwu Obiesie Nurse staffing and patient care outcomes: protocol for an umbrella review to identify evidence gaps for low and middle-income countries in global literature [version 2; peer review: 3 approved] Wellcome Open Research Developing countries Nurses quality of care patient care ward staffing eng |
| title | Nurse staffing and patient care outcomes: protocol for an umbrella review to identify evidence gaps for low and middle-income countries in global literature [version 2; peer review: 3 approved] |
| title_full | Nurse staffing and patient care outcomes: protocol for an umbrella review to identify evidence gaps for low and middle-income countries in global literature [version 2; peer review: 3 approved] |
| title_fullStr | Nurse staffing and patient care outcomes: protocol for an umbrella review to identify evidence gaps for low and middle-income countries in global literature [version 2; peer review: 3 approved] |
| title_full_unstemmed | Nurse staffing and patient care outcomes: protocol for an umbrella review to identify evidence gaps for low and middle-income countries in global literature [version 2; peer review: 3 approved] |
| title_short | Nurse staffing and patient care outcomes: protocol for an umbrella review to identify evidence gaps for low and middle-income countries in global literature [version 2; peer review: 3 approved] |
| title_sort | nurse staffing and patient care outcomes protocol for an umbrella review to identify evidence gaps for low and middle income countries in global literature version 2 peer review 3 approved |
| topic | Developing countries Nurses quality of care patient care ward staffing eng |
| url | https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/6-363/v2 |
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