ABOUT RN4CAST

RN4CAST studied how organizational features of hospital care impact on nurse recruitment, nurse retention and patient outcomes. In 2009-2010 we surveyed fully qualified professional nurses and patients in about 500 general acute care hospitals in 12 European countries (Belgium, England, Finland, Germany, Greece, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland), and collected discharge data from hundreds of thousands of patients. Several countries have replicated the study since, and new nation-wide studies in Portugal (2014), Italy (2015-2016) and Cyprus (2015-2016) have been initiated.
RN4CAST is led by Walter Sermeus (KU Leuven, Belgium) and Linda Aiken (University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, US). It was initiated through funding from 2009 to 2011 by the European Union under the Seventh Framework Programme. Several RN4CAST reports can be found on the European Commission's Community Research and Development Information Service website (progress report 2009-2010, progress report 2010-2011, final report 2011). The main study findings -- which for example linked nurse staffing and education to patient mortality -- were published after the funding period had ended.  Still, more work is underway. We therefore recommend you regularly visit our research spotlight section ​to discover more insights into the policy-relevant evidence generated from RN4CAST. Our work has been published in the leading medical, health care sciences and nursing journals between 2009 and 2017. Because of the complex research issues and strong methodology applied in RN4CAST, you will notice that several articles are committed to a methodological-substantive synergy, with an agenda for both research and policy.
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RN4CAST is the greatest endeavor to highlight the important role of health professionals in providing safe patient care.

Walter Sermeus & Linda Aiken 

CONSORTIUM DIRECTORS

Walter Sermeus

Full Professor
KU Leuven, Belgium
​RN4CAST DIRECTOR

Linda Aiken

Full Professor
​University of Pennsylvania, US
​RN4CAST CO-DIRECTOR

RN4CAST BELGIUM

Luk
​Bruyneel

Post-doctoral researcher
​KU Leuven, Belgium

Koen
​Van den Heede

Post-doctoral researcher
​KU Leuven, Belgium

Emmanuel
​Lesaffre

Full Professor
KU Leuven, Belgium

RN4CAST US

Herb
​Smith

Full Professor
University of Pennsylvania, US

Douglas Sloane

Full Professor
University of Pennsylvania, US
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Matt
​McHugh

Associate Professor
University of Pennsylvania, US

RN4CAST ENGLAND

Anne Marie Rafferty

Full Professor
King's College London, UK

Peter Griffiths

Full Professor
University of Southampton, UK

Jane
​Ball

Post-doctoral researcher
University of Southampton, UK

RN4CAST SWEDEN

Carol Tishelman

Full Professor
Karolinska Institute, Sweden

Rikard Lindqvist

Post-doctoral researcher
Karolinska Institute, Sweden
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Lisa
​Smeds

Post-doctoral researcher
Karolinska Institute, Sweden

RN4CAST GERMANY

Reinhard Busse

Full Professor
Technical University Berlin, Germany

Claudia
​Maier

Researcher
Technical University Berlin, Germany
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Britta
​Zander

Researcher
Technical University Berlin, Germany

RN4CAST IRELAND

Marcia Kirwan

Lecturer
Dublin City University, Ireland

Anne Matthews

Full Professor
Dublin City University, Ireland

Anne
​Scott

Full Professor
​Ireland

RN4CAST SWITZERLAND

Sabina De Geest

Full Professor
University of Basel, Switzerland

Dietmar Ausserhofer

Post-doctoral researcher
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Maria Schubert

Post-doctoral researcher

RN4CAST THE NETHERLANDS

Theo Van Achterberg

Full Professor
KU Leuven,
​Belgium

Maud Heinen

Senior Researcher
Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Lisette Schoonhoven

Professor,
University of Southampton, England

RN4CAST FINLAND

RN4CAST ITALY

RN4CAST CYPRUS

Juha Kinnunen

Full Professor
Eastern University of Finland

Loredana Sasso

Full Professor
​University of Genua, Italy

Evridiki Papastavrou

Full Professor
Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus

RN4CAST PORTUGAL

RN4CAST SPAIN

RN4CAST GREECE

Elvio 
Henriques de Jesus

Professor
​Catholic University Portugal

Teresa
​Moreno-Casbas

Director of Unit
​Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spain

John
​Mantas

Full Professor
University of Athens, Greece

RN4CAST POLAND

RN4CAST NORWAY 

Tomasz Brzostek

Full Professor
Jagiellonian University Krakow, Poland

Ingeborg 
​Stromseng Sjetne

Researcher
​Knowledge Center for the Health Services, Norway

Inger
​Margrethe Holter

Norwegian Nurses Association
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RN4CAST S-AFRICA

RN4CAST CHINA

RN4CAST BOTSWANA

Hester
​Klopper

Full Professor
​Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Liming
​You

Sun Yat-sen University, China

Sheila
​Shaibu

Full Professor
University of Botswana