2020 Volume 57 Issue 3 Pages 95-104
Better work-life balance among healthcare workers may contribute to patient safety as well as their well-being. This study aimed to determine the relationship between paramedic’s workloads and outcomes relating to patient safety.
A systematic review was conducted for the literatures which were published from January 1964 to August 2018 in Ichushi Web, and which were published from August 2008 to August 2018 in PubMed.
As a results, 26 literatures relating to nurse’s workloads, 2 literatures relating to pharmacist’s workloads and 7 other literatures were obtained. In those literatures, there were 7 systematic reviews, 28 observational studies with control groups, but no randomized controlled study. There was no clear evidence that paramedic’s workloads negatively affect patient’s mortality. On the other hand, it was suggested that increased nurse’s workload could increase the number of nosocomial infections at intensive care units and medication errors.
