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July 2005, Vol 95, No. 7 | American Journal of Public Health 1220-1225
© 2005 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2004.045070

RESEARCH AND PRACTICE

Staffing and Worker Injury in Nursing Homes

Alison M. Trinkoff, ScD, Meg Johantgen, PhD, Carles Muntaner, MD, PhD and Rong Le, MS

Alison M. Trinkoff, Carles Muntaner, and Rong Le are with the Department of Family and Community Health, and Meg Johantgen is with the Department of Organizational Systems and Adult Health, University of Maryland School of Nursing, Baltimore, Md. Carlos Muntaner is also with the Center for Addiction and Mental Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, and the Institute of Work and Health, Toronto.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Alison M. Trinkoff, ScD, University of Maryland School of Nursing, 655 W Lombard St, Rm 625, Baltimore, MD 21201 (email: trinkoff{at}son.umaryland.edu).

Objectives. We examined the relationship between nursing home staffing levels and worker injury rates in 445 nursing homes in 3 states.

Methods. We obtained First Reports of Injury and workers’ compensation data from 3 states (Ohio, West Virginia, and Maryland) for the year 2000. We then linked these data to Medicare’s Online Survey, Certification and Reporting system to obtain nursing home staffing details and organizational descriptors. We used ordinary least squares and log-transformed regression models to examine the association between worker injury rate and nursing home staffing and organizational characteristics.

Results. Total nursing hours per resident day were significantly associated with worker injury rates in nursing homes after we adjusted for organizational characteristics and state dummy variables (P=.0004).

Conclusions. Our findings suggest that nursing home staffing levels have an important impact on worker health. These findings were supported for multiple facilities across different states; therefore, policies and resources that increase staffing levels in nursing homes are warranted.




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