Linda H. Aiken in the News

Research by Herbert L. Smith, Linda H. Aiken, and Matthew D. McHugh has been quoted in a The Nation article about patient-to-staff ratios in a hospital and how it could help save lives.
Linda H. Aiken, Matthew D. McHugh and co-authors have authored a study in Health Affairs describing slow progress and uneven application in efforts to reduce medical errors. “Improving work environments through organization and culture change is a comparatively low-cost intervention to improve quality of care and patient safety,” says Aiken. Read more here and here.
PSC researcher, Linda H. Aiken, gave remarks at the celebration of the end of the five-state Graduate Nursing Education.
Linda H. Aiken was mentioned in a WHYY article about the training of nurse practitioners.
PSC researcher, Linda H. Aiken, was interviewed by the Patient Safety Network (PSNET) about nursing outcomes and investing in nursing.
LInda Aiken and co-authors have published a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine calling for the mordernization in the way Medicare pays for training nurses and highlighting a successful new model of cost-effectively training more advanced practice nurses to practice community-based primary care (Penn Nursing News).
L inda H. Aiken and colleagues are featured in the NEJM and LDI HEALTH Policy$ense for their new funding consortium model to train nurse practitioners
Linda Aiken wrote an article in NHS England about a safe workforce for maximizing patient outcomes.
Patient satisfaction is closely linked to the number of nurses on wards, according to a study led by Linda Aiken of the School of Nursing, published in the journal BMJ Open. In a Penn Nursing news release, Aiken is quoted discussing the details of the recent article "Patient satisfaction with hospital care and nurses in England: an observational study".
Linda Aiken of the School of Nursing comments on the correlation between mortality rates and the number of nurses available to care for patients in a Boston Globe article.
The Nell J. Watts Lifetime Achievement in Nursing Award is given to a Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) Honor Society of Nursing member who has demonstrated exemplary achievements in nursing throughout his or her lifetime. Linda H. Aiken is director and founder of the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research at Penn’s School of Nursing. Its RN4CAST, one of the center’s projects and based on her research, is the largest study of its kind on nursing care and patient outcomes in the US, Europe, Asia, South Africa, Australia, and Chile. It has been implemented in 30 countries and funded by many sources, including the National Institutes of Health and the European Commission.
Linda Aiken is quoted in new article "Study Provides First Evidence for American Nurses Credentialing Center Pathway to Excellence Program in Home Care".
In a new study, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing’s Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research (CHOPR), and the Rutgers University School of Nursing examined the factors influencing the likelihood of missed nursing care in the home care setting. Their findings indicate that home care nurses with poor work environments are more likely to miss required care. Read Linda Aiken's co-authored paper here.
Linda Aiken awarded International Council of Nurses Highest Honor, 2017 Christiane Reimann Prize.
In a new study, Linda Aiken and fellow researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing’s Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia found that pediatric nurses with poor work environments and higher patient loads are more likely to miss required care. Read research paper here.
Linda Aiken of the School of Nursing is cited in a CBS News article for studying the relevance and significance of a physician’s age to patient care.
The special seminar put together as part of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI) 50th Anniversary year, featured the three previous executive directors of the LDI, along with CHOPR’s Director and Founder, Linda H. Aiken, PhD, RN. Moderated by current LDI Executive Director Daniel Polsky, PhD, Aiken was joined by David Asch, MD, J. Sanford Schwartz, MD and Mark Pauly, PhD.
Study led by Linda H. Aiken of Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (Penn Nursing) reports that hospitals that employ more nurse assistants relative to the number of professionally qualified nurses have higher mortality rates, lower patient satisfaction, and poorer quality and safety of care, was published in the leading scientific journal BMJ Quality and Safety.
Linda H. Aiken nominated Mary D. Naylor, recently named Distinguished Investigator.
Linda H. Aiken presented Mary D. Naylor, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, With AcademyHealth Distinguished Investigator Award. Naylor was nominated by Linda H. Aiken, PhD, RN, FAAN, the Claire M. Fagin Leadership Professor in Nursing, Professor of Sociology, and Director of the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, and the first nurse to be awarded this honor. “Dr. Naylor’s multiple contributions to health services research and its impact on health care delivery place her among the most successful health services researchers and an extraordinary role model for the field,” said Aiken. Read Penn Nursing's article here.
Matthew McHugh, Linda Aiken, Paul Rosenbaum, and Herbert Smith collaborated with other researchers from the Center for Outcomes Research at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research at Penn’s School of Nursing, Penn’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics and the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania on a study which showed that patients undergoing surgery at Magnet hospitals recognized for nursing excellence, and good nurse staffing, have better outcomes at the same or lower costs as other hospitals. Read study published in the prominent surgery journal JAMA Surgery here.
A new study by Linda Aiken, Jeffrey Silber and Matthew McHugh has shown that post-surgery outcomes are better at Magnet hospitals with high nursing ratings, and that is achieved with the same or lower costs than at other hospitals.
Linda Aiken's novel study on nurses trained abroad shows lower patient satisfaction in hospitals with many foreign-trained nurses.
For decades, Penn Nursing has been at the forefront of research evaluating the effects of adequate nurse staffing on improving patient outcomes around the world. Now, with the support of a Penn Global Engagement Fund Award, Penn Nursing faculty will have the opportunity to look specifically at the nursing workforce in Chile. Nursing faculty Dr. Linda Aiken, Dr. Eileen Lake, and Dr. Matthew McHugh, along with partners from the School of Arts and Sciences Dr. Jere Behrman and Dr. Herb Smith, received one of 12 Penn Global Engagement Fund Awards for the 2015-2016 academic year for their project titled Healthcare Workforce and Quality Outcomes: Lessons from Chile, United States and Europe. The team will work with the School of Nursing at Universidad de los Andes to survey nurses at 50 hospitals in Chile about issues such as a patient to staff ratio, relationships between doctors and nurses, and quality and safety assessments.
Linda Aiken commented on the usefulness of traveling nurses for covering shortages in a USA Today article.
Linda Aiken is quoted in The Atlantic on how a better work environment for nurses can increase patient satisfaction with quality of care.
A 2014 article by PSC Associates Linda H. Aiken and Matthew D. McHugh (and co-authors) published in The Lancet, "Nurse staffing and education and hospital mortality in nine European countries: a retrospective observational study," ranked 27 on the Altmetric 2014 Top 100 Papers, see the press and citations here.
Linda H. Aiken of Penn Nursing has received the Lienhard Award from the Institute of Medicine.
Aiken's research on nurse staffing ratios is quoted in an article in the New York Times entitled "When No One Is on Call".
Linda Aiken has been named winner of the 2013 Velji Project of the Year Award for her global research using performance measures to demonstrate the critical impact of nurses on hospital patient outcomes.
A study authored by Linda Aiken has concluded that poor patient outcomes thought associated with hospital hiring of temporary nurses are more likely the result of poor working conditions within the hospitals themselves than with the nurses hired to alleviate shortages.
According to research co-authored by Linda Aiken, older black patients are three times more likely than older white patients to suffer poorer outcomes after surgery, including death, when cared for by nurses with higher workloads.
In an article on a study examining the links between care and nurse burnout, Linda Aiken says, "It is costing hospitals more money not to spend money on nursing."
Linda Aiken discusses the nursing industry and access to care in health-care facilities on NPR's Morning Edition.
Linda Aiken has been selected for the inaugural Dean’s Award for Exemplary Citizenship for her more than 25 years of service to Penn Nursing.
A consortium of investigators from 13 countries led by Linda Aiken found that nurses who reported better working conditions in hospitals and less likelihood of leaving also had patients who were more satisfied with their hospital stay and rated their hospitals more highly.
An international study led by Penn Nursing professor Linda Aiken indicates that better working conditions for nurses lead to more satisfied patients.
The School of Nursing’s Julie Fairman and Linda Aiken discuss nursing-crisis issues in hospitals.
Linda Aiken has been awarded the Her Royal Highness Princess Muna Al-Hussein Award for "significant contributions to healthcare across borders and a demonstrated dedication to nursing." She was also recently on WHYY taking about nurse shortages.
Linda Aiken's research is discussed in the New York Times article, "Is There a Nurse in the House?" on June 18, 2010.
Linda H. Aiken's research on nurse-patient ratios is discussed in the Philadelphia Inquirer article "More Nurses, Less Death" from April 20, 2010.
Linda Aiken discusses patient satisfaction with nurses in an article in the New York Times, "With Doctors in Short Supply, Responsibilities for Nurses May Expand."

Linda H. Aiken in the News

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