Cook, Andrew; Gaynor, Martin; Melvin Stephens, Jr.; … - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2012
We evaluate the impact of California Assembly Bill 394, which mandated maximum levels of patients per nurse in the hospital setting. When the law was passed, some hospitals already met the requirements, while others did not. Thus changes in staffing ratios from the pre- to post-mandate periods...