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  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2003 - Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
  • 1998 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1981 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Linda H. Aiken is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research spans multiple aspects of healthcare professions and medicine, with a particular focus on nursing and healthcare workforce issues.

Their frequent publication venues include:

  • BMJ Open
  • Medical Care
  • Nursing Outlook
  • Research in Nursing & Health
  • International Journal of Nursing Studies

Their main fields of study cover Health Professions and Medicine. Subfields include General Health Professions, Emergency Medicine, Research and Theory, Emergency Medical Services, and Economics and Econometrics.

Key research topics addressed in their work are:

  • Healthcare professionals' stress and burnout
  • Nursing education and management
  • Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
  • Nursing Roles and Practices
  • Emergency and Acute Care Studies
  • Global Health Workforce Issues
  • Healthcare Policy and Management

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Linda H. Aiken include:

  • Physician and Nurse Well-Being and Preferred Interventions to Address Burnout in Hospital Practice, 2023, JAMA Health Forum
  • Effects of nurse-to-patient ratio legislation on nurse staffing and patient mortality, readmissions, and length of stay: a prospective study in a panel of hospitals, 2021, The Lancet
  • Leveraging the Work Environment to Minimize the Negative Impact of Nurse Burnout on Patient Outcomes, 2021, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Chronic hospital nurse understaffing meets COVID-19: an observational study, 2020, BMJ Quality & Safety
  • System-Level Improvements in Work Environments Lead to Lower Nurse Burnout and Higher Patient Satisfaction, 2020, Journal of Nursing Care Quality

Frequent coauthors in Linda H. Aiken's collaborative work include:

  • Matthew D. McHugh
  • Karen B. Lasater
  • Douglas M. Sloane
  • Heather Brom

Aiken has been recognized with several awards, including the Fellowship of the American Academy of Political and Social Science in 2003, Fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998, and election as a Member of the National Academy of Medicine in 1981.

Best Publications

  • Hospital Nurse Staffing and Patient Mortality, Nurse Burnout, and Job Dissatisfaction

    Linda H. Aiken;Sean P. Clarke;Douglas M. Sloane;Julie Sochalski

  • Nurse staffing and education and hospital mortality in nine European countries: a retrospective observational study

    Linda H Aiken;Douglas M Sloane;Luk Bruyneel;Koen Van den Heede

  • Nurses’ Reports On Hospital Care In Five Countries

    Linda H. Aiken;Sean P. Clarke;Douglas M. Sloane;Julie A. Sochalski

  • Educational levels of hospital nurses and surgical patient mortality.

    Linda H. Aiken;Sean P. Clarke;Robyn B. Cheung;Douglas M. Sloane

  • Patient safety, satisfaction, and quality of hospital care: cross sectional surveys of nurses and patients in 12 countries in Europe and the United States.

    Linda H Aiken;Walter Sermeus;Koen Van den Heede;Douglas M Sloane

  • Hospital staffing, organization, and quality of care: Cross-national findings.

    Linda H. Aiken;Sean P. Clarke;Douglas M. Sloane

  • Effects of nurse staffing and nurse education on patient deaths in hospitals with different nurse work environments.

    Linda H Aiken;Jeannie P Cimiotti;Douglas M Sloane;Herbert L Smith

  • Effects of hospital care environment on patient mortality and nurse outcomes.

    Linda H. Aiken;Sean P. Clarke;Douglas M. Sloane;Eileen T. Lake

  • Nurse Burnout and Patient Satisfaction

    Doris C. Vahey;Linda H. Aiken;Douglas M. Sloane;Sean P. Clarke

  • The Working Hours Of Hospital Staff Nurses And Patient Safety

    Ann E. Rogers;Wei Ting Hwang;Linda D. Scott;Linda H. Aiken

  • Lower Medicare mortality among a set of hospitals known for good nursing care.

    Linda H. Aiken;Herbert L. Smith;Eileen T. Lake

  • Measuring organizational traits of hospitals: the Revised Nursing Work Index.

    Linda H. Aiken;Patricia A. Patrician

  • Nurses’ Widespread Job Dissatisfaction, Burnout, And Frustration With Health Benefits Signal Problems For Patient Care

    Matthew D. McHugh;Ann Kutney-Lee;Jeannie P. Cimiotti;Douglas M. Sloane

  • The Importance Of Transitional Care In Achieving Health Reform

    Mary D. Naylor;Linda H. Aiken;Ellen T. Kurtzman;Danielle M. Olds

  • Nurse staffing, burnout, and health care-associated infection.

    Jeannie P. Cimiotti;Linda H. Aiken;Douglas M. Sloane;Evan S. Wu

  • Nurses’ reports of working conditions and hospital quality of care in 12 countries in Europe

    Linda H Aiken;Douglas M Sloane;Luk Bruyneel;Koen Van den Heede

  • Outcomes of variation in hospital nurse staffing in English hospitals: cross-sectional analysis of survey data and discharge records.

    Anne Marie Rafferty;Sean P. Clarke;James Coles;James Coles;Jane Ball

  • Access to medical care for black and white Americans. A matter of continuing concern.

    Robert J. Blendon;Linda H. Aiken;Howard E. Freeman;Christopher R. Corey

  • Nursing skill mix in European hospitals: cross-sectional study of the association with mortality, patient ratings, and quality of care

    Linda H Aiken;Douglas Sloane;Peter Griffiths;Anne Marie Rafferty

  • Nurses' Reports On Hospital Care In Five Countriese ways in which nurses' work is structured have left nurses

    Linda H. Aiken;Sean P. Clarke;Douglas M. Sloane;Reinhard Busse

Frequent Co-Authors

Herbert L. Smith
Herbert L. Smith University of Pennsylvania
Reinhard Busse
Reinhard Busse Technical University of Berlin
Robert J. Blendon
Robert J. Blendon Harvard University
David Mechanic
David Mechanic Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Paul R. Rosenbaum
Paul R. Rosenbaum University of Pennsylvania
Carol Tishelman
Carol Tishelman Karolinska Institute
Sabina De Geest
Sabina De Geest University of Basel
Martin McKee
Martin McKee London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Lisette Schoonhoven
Lisette Schoonhoven Utrecht University
Robert A. Berg
Robert A. Berg Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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