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Exploring if day and time of admission is associated with average length of stay among inpatients from a tertiary hospital in Singapore: an analytic study based on routine admission data. [PDF]

, 2006
BACKGROUND: It has been postulated that patients admitted on weekends or after office hours may experience delays in clinical management and consequently have longer length of stay (LOS).
Chen Mark IC, Arul Earnest, Seow Eillyne, Eillyne Seow, Earnest Arul, Seow, Eillyne, Mark IC Chen, Earnest, Arul, Chen, Mark IC   +8 more
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Quantifying changes in respiratory syncytial virus—associated hospitalizations among children in Texas during COVID-19 pandemic using records from 2006 to 2021

Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2023
AimTo quantify changes on RSV- associated hospitalizations during COVID-19 pandemic, among children four years of age or younger at the state and county levels of Texas using routinely acquired hospital admission records.MethodsWe used the Texas Public ...
Inyang Uwak, Natalie Johnson, Toriq Mustapha, Mariya Rahman, Tanaya Tonpay, Annette K. Regan, Itza Mendoza-Sanchez   +6 more
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Accurate measurement of ventilator length of stay and ventilator days for use in assessing patient safety and ventilator associated events [PDF]

, 2020
Objective: Accurate measurements of ventilator length of stay are important for quality measures and mandated by Centers of Disease Control for reporting ventilator associated events.
Ron Sanderson, Joshua Mullen, Kimiyo Yamasaki   +2 more
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Association of physiological reserve measures with adverse outcomes following liver transplantation

JGH Open, 2022
Background and Aim The comparative utility of physiological reserve measures in predicting important clinical outcomes following liver transplantation (LT) requires further study. The aim of this work was therefore to compare the utility of physiological
James S Kimber, Richard J Woodman, Sumudu K Narayana, Libby John, Jeyamani Ramachandran, David Schembri, John W C Chen, Kate R Muller, Alan J Wigg   +8 more
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Comparison of two methods for attributing length of hospital stay to healthcare-acquired infection [PDF]

, 2008
The development of models of the cost-effectiveness of infection control programs must be informed by valid estimates of the extra length of hospital stay due to healthcare-acquired infection (HAI).
Whitby, Michael, Faddy, Malcolm J., Graves, Nicholas, Tong, Edward   +3 more
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Impact of shortened length of stay for delivery on the required bed capacity in maternity services: results from forecast analysis on administrative data

BMC Health Services Research, 2019
Background We examine the implications of reducing the average length of stay (ALOS) for a delivery on the required capacity in terms of service volume and maternity beds in Belgium, using administrative data covering all inpatient stays in Belgian ...
Mélanie Lefèvre, Koen Van den Heede, Cécile Camberlin, Nicolas Bouckaert, Claire Beguin, Carl Devos, Carine Van de Voorde   +6 more
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Complicated appendicitis increases the hospital length of stay

Surgery Open Science, 2022
Background: There are insufficient data from Saudi Arabia regarding appendectomy outcomes and hospital length of stay. Further, there is a need to compare the length of stay of Saudi patients and the literature.
Abdulrahman Muaod Alotaibi, MD, Mohammed Alfawaz, MD, Lina Felemban, MD, Leena Moshref, MD, Rana Moshref, MD   +4 more
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Comparison of Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) protocol versus Conventional Approach for Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: An Interventional Study [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research
Introduction: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is considered the gold standard for benign gallbladder disease due to its minimal invasiveness, reduced bleeding, and rapid recovery.
B Praveen Kumar, S Vinoth Kumar, S Sendhil Sudarsan, CP Ganesh Babu   +3 more
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Healthcare data mining: predicting inpatient length of stay [PDF]

, 2006
Data mining approaches have been widely applied in the field of healthcare. At the same time it is recognized that most healthcare datasets are full of missing values.
Naijun, W., Liu, P., Wei Zhang, Junjie Yin, Peng Liu, Elia El-Darzi, Lei, L., Lei Lei, Wu Naijun, Yin, J., El-Darzi, E., Zhang, W.   +11 more
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Role of handgrip strength testing in pre-anaesthetic check-up: A prospective cross-sectional study

Journal of Anaesthesiology Clinical Pharmacology, 2022
Background and Aims: Frailty has been known to be associated with postoperative adverse events and longer hospital length of stay (LOS). Hand grip strength (HGS) is one of the parameters of measuring frailty.
Kamakshi Garg, Bishav Mohan, Neeru Luthra, Anju Grewal, Dolly Bhardwaj, Rohit Tandon, Richa Kapoor, Shalini Luthra   +7 more
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