Nurse and Physician Wages vs Staffing Levels in Swiss Acute Care Hospitals, 2018-2020

Aleksandra Vasic's research report presents data from the HONEST sub-study analyzing associations between wages and staffing levels in Swiss acute care hospitals. Routinely collected hospital data from the Swiss Federal Office of Statistics covering 2018-2020 was analyzed, with 2019 as the index year. Staffing levels were calculated as hours per inpatient day based on full-time equivalents and total inpatient days.

Use Cases

• Correlating wage structures with staffing patterns based on hospital-level stratification mentioned in the description
• Analyzing potential mechanisms linking wages to hospital performance based on the described staffing metric
• Comparing workforce dynamics between nurse and physician roles based on the reported correlation coefficients

Strengths

• Data covers three consecutive years (2018-2020) from a national statistical office
• Analysis uses Spearman's rank correlation coefficients with reported significance (p < 0.001)
• Staffing levels are calculated from standardized metrics (hours per inpatient day, full-time equivalents)

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• The analysis is descriptive and cross-sectional, not causal, as noted in the description

Provenance

Source

Swiss Federal Office of Statistics

Collection Method

Routinely collected hospital data

Time Range

2018-2020

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 05:30:59; freshness should be verified

Geography

Switzerland