Nursing Unit Communication During a US Public Health Emergency: Natural Experiment.
Marge Benham-HutchinsKathleen M CarleyBarbara B BrewerJudith A EffkenJeffrey RemingaPublished in: JMIR nursing (2018)
Units in the hospital site in the same city as the EVD case exhibited multiple changes in patient outcomes, network communication metrics, and response rates. Future research using SNA to examine the influence of public health emergencies on hospital communication networks and relationships to patient outcomes is warranted.