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The increasing impact of length of stay “outliers” on length of stay at an urban academic hospital [PDF]

BMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background As healthcare systems strive for efficiency, hospital “length of stay outliers” have the potential to significantly impact a hospital’s overall utilization.
Andrew H. Hughes, David Horrocks, Curtis Leung, Melissa B. Richardson, Ann M. Sheehy, Charles F. S. Locke   +5 more
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Reducing length of hospital stay with colchicine

Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, 2022
Introduction: Colchicine is an ancient agent with well-known anti-inflammatory effects and commonly used in treatment of hyperinflammatory conditions.
Özlem Karakaş, Abdulsamet Erden, Serdar Can Güven, Berkan Armağan, Enes Seyda Sahiner, Ali Can Kurtipek, Osman Inan, Emin Gemcioglu, İhsan Ateş, Ahmet Omma, Orhan Küçüksahin   +10 more
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Association between ambient air pollution and hospital admissions, length of hospital stay and hospital cost for patients with cardiovascular diseases and comorbid diabetes mellitus: Base on 1,969,755 cases in Beijing, China, 2014–2019

Environment International, 2022
Background: Evidence on the effects of the air pollutants on the hospital admissions, hospital cost and length of stay (LOS) among patients with comorbidities remains limited in China, particularly for patients with cardiovascular diseases and comorbid ...
Zhiwei Li, Mengyang Liu, Zhiyuan Wu, Yue Liu, Weiming Li, Mengmeng Liu, Shiyun Lv, Siqi Yu, Yanshuang Jiang, Bo Gao, Xiaonan Wang, Xia Li, Wei Wang, Hualiang Lin, Xiuhua Guo, Xiangtong Liu   +15 more
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Predicting Length of Stay Across Hospital Departments

IEEE Access, 2021
The length of hospital stay and its implications have a significant economic and human impact. As a consequence, the prediction of that key parameter has been subject to previous research in recent years. Most previous work has analysed length of stay in
Jesus Manuel Puentes Gutierrez, Miguel-Angel Sicilia, Salvador Sanchez-Alonso, Elena Garcia-Barriocanal   +3 more
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Hospital length of stay and the role of ICU transfer of care in postoperative oral cancer patients [PDF]

BMC Oral Health
Background The decision to transfer postoperative oral cancer patients to the intensive care unit (ICU) lacks standardized criteria and remains contentious. This study aimed to determine whether ICU transfer independently prolongs hospital length of stay
Junpeng Tang, Yan Huang, Jinzhao Zhang, Fanrong Lin, Siqi Liu, Weipeng Liu, Jingying Hou, Zhengfei Yang   +7 more
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Appropriateness of hospital admission and length of stay in the pediatric department of a tertiary care hospital in West Bengal

Indian Journal of Community Medicine, 2023
Background: Appropriateness of admissions and inpatient length of stay (LOS) are important factors controlling health-care expenditure. The current study was conducted to assess the proportion of appropriate admissions among 29-day to 12-year--old aged ...
Sampriti Samanta, Alapan Bandyopadhyay, Abhijit Mukherjee, Sharmistha Bhattacherjee   +3 more
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Light and Length of Stay in Hospital [PDF]

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1988
A study was carried out to examine whether the time spent as an inpatient in hospital showed a seasonal dependence which could be attributed to differences in ambient lighting levels between summer and winter. It was found that the season of admission to hospital did not make any appreciable difference to how long patients took to recover before they ...
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Predicting Healthcare Utilization by Patients Admitted for COPD Exacerbation [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2016
Background: Healthcare utilization, especially length of hospital stay and ICU admission, for acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AECOPD) determine overall outcomes in terms of morbidity, mortality and cost burden. Predicting
Karthikeyan Ramaraju, Anupama Murthy Kaza, Nithilavalli Balasubramanian, Siddhuraj Chandrasekaran   +3 more
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Sarcopenia and length of hospital stay [PDF]

European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2015
We aimed to quantify the association of sarcopenia with length of hospital stay (LOS) and to identify factors associated with sarcopenia among hospitalized patients.A total of 655 patients composed the study sample. A longitudinal study was conducted in a University Hospital.
Sousa, Ana, Guerra, Rita S, Fonseca, Isabel, Pichel, Fernando, Amaral, Teresa   +4 more
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Comparative study of length of stay of COVID-19 recovered patients in government and private tertiary care setup

National Journal of Physiology, Pharmacy and Pharmacology, 2023
Background: COVID-19 pandemic placed an unprecedented strain on health-care systems. The demand for healthcare in hospitals and intensive care units increased everywhere in the world in the form of beds, staff, equipment, medicines, etc. In this process,
Swaroop Chand Bhansali, Venkat Praveen Janipalli, Balananda Perugu, Ravi Sunder Ragam   +3 more
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