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Length of Stay and Hospital Bed Misutilization
Medical Care, 1974Under the now virtually universal hospital bed utilization review requirements of government and third parties in the United States, by far the greatest emphasis has been upon the control of "long-stay" or "extended duration" hospitalization. While unnecessarily protracted stays are demonstrably important from a cost viewpoint and are frequently ...
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Managing Hospital Length of Stay Reduction
Health Care Management Review, 2005Major financial constraints on health care payors are increasing pressure on hospitals to become more efficient. This study described the use of common data formats and specific interventions with physicians and nursing homes to reduce inpatient lengths of stay by four hospitals in Syracuse, New York.
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Analyzing Hospital Length of Stay
Medical Care, 2003Length of stay (LOS) is an important measure of hospital activity and health care utilization, but its empirical distribution is often positively skewed.This study reviews the mean and median regression approaches for analyzing LOS, which have implications for service planning, resource allocation, and bed utilization.The two approaches are applied to ...
Fung, WK, Fu, B, Lee, AH
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Length of Hospital Stay for Routine Surgery
Archives of Surgery, 1987To the Editor .—Over the past few years, there has been an extraordinary emphasis by governmental agencies and insurance companies on reducing length of hospital stay as a means of controlling health care costs. As a result, physicians are altering their practices dramatically to try to respond to this concern. In the June issue of theArchives, Luna et
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The Lengths of Psychiatric Hospital Stays and Community Stays [PDF]
, 1998 We use advanced survival analysis methods to estimate the parameters affecting the joint distribution of exit dates from psychiatric hospitals and return dates to those hospitals. Data comes from Virginia state psychiatric hospital administrative records. We find that sex, marital status, employment status, diagnosis, and age help explain durations. We
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Predicting the Length of Stay of Patients in Hospitals
2021 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), 2021Zhiwei Fu +4 more
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LENGTH OF STAY IN HOSPITAL OF THE AGED SICK
The Lancet, 1952, AMULREE, P, ARNOLD, A, POLAK
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