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Chapter Title: Front Matter

Book Title: Safety in Numbers

Book Subtitle: Nurse-to-Patient Ratios and the Future of Health Care
Book Author(s): Suzanne Gordon, John Buchanan and Tanya Bretherton
Published by: Cornell University Press. (2008)
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A VOLUME IN THE SERIES

The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work

Edited by Suzanne Gordon and Sioban Nelson

The Caregiver: A Life with Alzheimer’s

By Aaron Alterra
Assisted Living for Our Parents: A Son’s Journey
By Daniel Jay Baum
From Silence to Voice: What Nurses Know and Must Communicate to the Public,
Second Edition
By Bernice Buresh and Suzanne Gordon
Differential Diagnoses: A Comparative History of Health Care Problems and Solutions
in the United States and France
By Paul V. Dutton
Nobody’s Home: Candid Reflections of a Nursing Home Aide
By Thomas Edward Gass
Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines
By Suzanne Gordon
Nursing against the Odds: How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes, and
Medical Hubris Undermine Nurses and Patient Care
By Suzanne Gordon
Nurses on the Move: Migration and the Global Health Care Economy
By Mireille Kingma
The Complexities of Care: Nursing Reconsidered
Edited by Sioban Nelson and Suzanne Gordon
Code Green: Money-Driven Hospitals and the Dismantling of Nursing
By Dana Beth Weinberg

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 Safety in
Numbers
NURSE-TO-PATIENT
RATIOS AND THE FUTURE
OF HEALTH CARE

Suzanne Gordon,
John Buchanan, and
Tanya Bretherton

ILR Press
AN IMPRINT OF
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
ITHACA AND LONDON

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 Copyright © 2008 by Suzanne Gordon, John Buchanan, and Tanya Bretherton

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First published 2008 by Cornell University Press

Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Gordon, Suzanne, 1945–

Safety in numbers : nurse-to-patient ratios and the future of health care / Suzanne Gordon,
John Buchanan, and Tanya Bretherton.
p. cm. — (The culture and politics of health care work)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8014-4683-2 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Nursing services—Standards—California. 2. Nursing services—Standards—Australia—
Victoria. 3. Nursing services—California—Personnel management—Statistical methods. 4.
Nursing services—Australia—Victoria—Personnel management—Statistical methods. 5.
Hospitals—California—Administration—Statistical methods. 6. Hospitals—Australia—
Victoria—Administration—Statistical methods. 7. Ratio analysis. I. Buchanan, John. II.
Bretherton, Tanya. III. Title. IV. Series.
RT85.5.G67 2008
362,17'30683—dc22 2007045442

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