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Institutional, national, and public strategies are urgently needed to address the severe shortage and high turnover of human resources in intensive care units to improve clinical outcomes.
Highlights the critical shortage of well-trained staff in intensive care units and calls for institutional and public strategies to improve staff retention and clinical outcomes.
Critical care patients are severely ill and have a potentially deadly condition that requires a special care. Advanced health technology is required, but well trained staff is specially needed to provide acute care with higher intensity than a patient in a general ward. Nevertheless, human resources are lacking, hard to get and to retain and desertion rate is high with low periods of permanence. This requires institutional, national and public strategies to improve stability of ICU staff in order to advance in teamwork and clinical outcome.
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Pérez et al. (2016) conducted an editorial in Critical illness. Public policy and institutional strategies was evaluated. Institutional, national, and public strategies are urgently needed to address the severe shortage and high turnover of human resources in intensive care units to improve clinical outcomes.
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