The University of Southampton funded a study to examine how the provision of nurses in hospital affects the patients, according to News Medical.
Here are five things to know:
1. The National Institute for Health Research: Health Services and Delivery Research Programme will fund the study.
2. The university will work with Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust and Portsmouth and York universities.
3. Researchers will study the relationship between nurse staffing levels and failure to observe patients' vital signs. They will gather information from 32 general inpatient wards across 100,000 shifts.
4. Professor Peter Griffiths of Health Sciences at the University of Southampton takes the role as lead researcher.
5. The researchers plan to publish their study in December 2017.
