Staffing is critical to hospital performance. However, in recent years, hospitals have struggled with severe staffing shortages, forcing them to rely on expensive agency staff to meet urgent patient care needs. This substitution of agency staff for permanent employees has raised concerns over its potential impact on financial stability. This study investigated the association of agency labor with hospital financial performance.
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Pradhan et al. (2024) studied this question.
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