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Shortening hospital stay for thyroid surgery

Expert Review of Medical Devices, 2008
The number of outpatient surgical procedures performed in hospitals, increases daily. In some countries, such as Italy, outpatient operations outnumber inpatient operations. The incidence of thyroid disorders and, in particular, the cancer forms, has been increasing sharply for many years in several countries.
DIONIGI, GIANLORENZO, A. Bacuzzi, ROVERA, FRANCESCA ANGELA, BONI, LUIGI, PIANTANIDA, ELIANA ANGELA ROSA, TANDA, MARIA LAURA PIERA, P. Castano, M. Annoni, BARTALENA, LUIGI, DIONIGI, RENZO   +9 more
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The impact of hospital discharge on inappropriate hospital stay

International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, 2004
Appropriate hospital stay should be effective, efficient and tailored to patient needs. Previous studies have found that on average 20 per cent of hospital stay is inappropriate. Within obstetrics, inappropriate hospital stay consists mostly of delays in hospital discharge.
Lambert J G G, Panis, Frank W S M, Verheggen, Peter, Pop, Martin H, Prins   +3 more
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Mechanisms to reduce hospital stays

The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 1996
The present era of medicine is concerned to a large measure with cost containment and the advent of managed care. For these reasons the concept of reducing hospital stays with a concomitant reduction in hospital cost is very attractive. The role of fast track is to ensure that we are not placing the patient at any additional risk and in fact are ...
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Dissecting the Hospital Stay

Medical Care, 1980
A methodology is proposed and tested for the staging of patients thorugh a hospital stay. Measurements in a university-affiliated hospital and a community hospital in the Boston area showed similar staging patterns with about half of the sample having abnormal signs and symptoms while under treatment.
H, Sherman, M, Flatley
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Staying in Hospital Social Work

Social Work in Health Care, 2002
Hospitals have traditionally been large employers of social workers. As workplaces they are often identified as being challenging and ambiguous environments for social work practice. In this study the experience of hospital work is explored. Social workers' 'tolerance' of the hospital environment is identified as a way of explaining 'staying.' Staying ...
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NISPLAN - projecting hospital beds and hospital stays

1999
The paper describes a computer model for projections of hospital stays and hospital beds, developed by NIS Health Services Research in Norway. The model takes into account demographic changes, changes in medical technology, needs for hospital services, morbidity and hospital structure and population preferences as to choice of hospital.
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Length of stay in community hospitals

Nursing Standard, 2001
To identify the factors that contribute to variation in length of stay in hospital.After a pilot study, an audit was undertaken in 11 community hospitals in a single trust over an eight-week period. Each ward was audited once. During the audit period 202 patients' records were reviewed, of which 71 were GP admissions and 131 were consultant admissions ...
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Determinants of Hospital Length of Stay

JONA: The Journal of Nursing Administration, 1993
An example of the inefficiency of cost-based reimbursement is that wide variations were observed between hospitals and between regions in the cost of treating similar diagnoses, with no apparent differences in quality. To correct these variations, the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act and its concomitant prospective payment system based on DRGs ...
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Stay Hospital and In-hospital Mortality by Stroke

Journal of Neuroscience Nursing, 2021
Otto J, Hernandez Fustes, Carlos Arteaga, Rodriguez   +1 more
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Short-Stay Hospitalizations and Hospital Capacity Constraints

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Mismatches in the supply and demand for hospital care are important causes of emergency department (ED) crowding. The extent to which short-stay hospitalizations contribute to overall hospital capacity constraints has not been well described.Retrospective cross-sectional analysis of hospitalizations at 4 US EDs (January 2018 to June 2024).
Alexander T. Janke, Wendy W. Sun, Courtney Gibson, Craig Rothenberg, Sara Lin, Kwame Tuffuor, Monisha Dilip, Austin Buchla, Keith E. Kocher, Rohit B. Sangal, Arjun K. Venkatesh   +10 more
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