Karen B. Lasater, PhD, RN is an Associate Professor at Penn’s School of Nursing in the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research. Her program of research utilizes a health services research framework and quantitative methods to study the impact of hospital nursing resources on patient outcomes and health care value. Dr. Lasater received her BSN from Quinnipiac University. She completed her PhD and a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in nursing outcomes research at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Karen Lasater, PhD, RN
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