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From: Missed nursing care in acute care hospital settings in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review

Fig. 2

Bubble plot showing factors associated with missed nursing care and the individual studies which reported these factors, their quality (The larger the bubble the higher the study quality), p values and direction of association (direct or inverse relationship with missed nursing care). Diagram contains factors that were reported by 4 or more studies. Inverse association means that both the risk factor and missed nursing care go in different directions, for example, higher levels of the factor are associated with less missed nursing care and vice versa. Direct association means both the level of missed nursing care and the factor go in the same direction. @ Gender, all studies report male nurses having greater levels of missed nursing care, except for bubble 11 which reported female nurses as having higher levels. * Type of hospital, greater missed nursing care in public hospitals than private hospitals (Bubble 2 and 15), less in tertiary and specialized care (Bubble 11), less in smaller than larger hospitals (Bubble 17). % Type of ward/unit, greater missed nursing care in surgical than medical wards (Bubble 7), greater levels in general than critical care wards (Bubble 2 and 3), less in closed units—Intensive care, hemato-oncology, bone marrow transplant units (Bubble 16). ^ Later shifts such as night or evening associated with greater missed nursing care than day shifts

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