Longitudinal Study of the Variation in Patient Turnover and Patient-to-Nurse Ratio: Descriptive Analysis of a Swiss University Hospital

Sarah N Musy   ^{1, 2} , MSc ;   Olga Endrich   ^{3, 4} , MD ;   Alexander B Leichtle   ^{4, 5} , MD ;   Peter Griffiths   ^{6, 7, 8} , PhD ;   Christos T Nakas   ^{5, 9} , PhD ;   Michael Simon   ^{1, 2} , PhD

¹ Institute of Nursing Science, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

² Nursing and Midwifery Research Unit, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

³ Medical Directorate, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

⁴ Insel Data Science Center, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

⁵ University Institute of Clinical Chemistry, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

⁶ Health Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

⁷ National Institute for Health Research Applied Research Collaboration (Wessex), Southampton, United Kingdom

⁸ LIME Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

⁹ Laboratory of Biometry, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece