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Dr Christina Saville

Research Fellow

Christina is a Research Fellow within Health Sciences. Currently working on analysis of daily variation in patients’ needs for nursing care, and modelling costs and consequences of alternative nurse staffing approaches. She completed her PhD thesis in the Operational Research group in the School of Mathematics. The thesis topic was mathematical modelling of breast diagnostic clinics. Prior to this she worked as an Operational Research Consultant at British Airways.

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Research interests

Operational research techniques applied to healthcare
Safe staffing

Affiliate research groups

Health Work , Work Force

Research project(s)

Identifying nurse-staffing requirements using the Safer Nursing Care Tool. Modelling the costs and consequences of real world application to address variation in patient need on hospital wards

The study will examine how patients' need for nursing care, varies from day to day. This will allow us to see how well staffing matches need and to explore the costs and consequences of different ways of deploying nurses to meet varying need.

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Articles

Saville, C., Griffiths, P., Ball, J., & Monks, T. (2019). How many nurses do we need? A review and discussion of operational research techniques applied to nurse staffing. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 97, 7-13. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2019.04.015
Griffiths, P., Saville, C., Ball, J. E., Chable, R., Dimech, A., Jones, J., ... Monks, T. (Accepted/In press). Identifying nurse-staffing requirements using the Safer Nursing Care Tool. Modelling the costs and consequences of real world application to address variation in patient need on hospital wards. Health Services and Delivery Research.

Creative Media and Artefacts

Saville, C. (Author), & Monks, T. (Author). (2019). Video of nurse staffing simulation. Digital or Visual Products

Review

Saville, C., Smith, H. K., & Bijak, K. (2019). Operational Research techniques applied throughout cancer care services: a review. Health Systems, 8(1), 52-73. DOI: 10.1080/20476965.2017.1414741

Thesis

Saville, C. (2018). Modelling pathways to diagnosis of breast conditions Southampton: University of Southampton

Working Paper

Griffiths, P., & Saville, C. (2019). Tools & systems to determine nurse staffing requirements: an evidence review. University of Southampton.

Dr Christina Saville
Health Sciences Student Office University of Southampton Highfield Southampton SO17 1BJ

Room Number: 67/3005

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