Toronto Star: Canadian hospitals were short on nurses in the pandemic — and preventable problems increased.

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/November 17, 2023

 

CIHI report is first time countrywide data on overtime, sick leave and nursing agency use has been used to examine staffing shortages during COVID. Patients suffered more preventable harm in Canadian hospitals during the pandemic as staffing levels for health-care workers dropped significantly, concluded a new report released Thursday by the Canadian Institute for Health Information. Read more on the Toronto Star website.

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