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 +5 more
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Predictors of Length-of-Stay Among Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Patients Using a Supervised Machine Learning Algorithm [PDF]
JACC: AdvancesBackground: Length of stay following transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) continues to improve, but significant gaps remain in predicting the length of stay following TAVR.
Gregory L. Judson, MD +8 more
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Determinants of Hospital Length of Stay among Burn Patients Using Quantile Regression [PDF]
Taṣvīr-i salāmat, 2021 Background and Objectives Burns is one of the most common and potentially dangerous public health problems. Burn patients' hospitalization facilitates the provision of medical services.
Kavous Shahsavarinia +5 more
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Do the etiology of hyponatremia and serum sodium levels affect the length of hospital stay in geriatric patients with hyponatremia? [PDF]
Journal of Medical Biochemistry, 2022 Background: Hyponatremia can lead to a prolonged hospital stay and increased morbidity and mortality rates in geriatric patients. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of hyponatremia etiology and serum sodium (Na) levels on hospitalisation time in ...
Baser Salih +2 more
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Association between Admission Blood Glucose Levels and Clinical Outcomes among Diabetic Adults Admitted to a Tertiary Care Hospital in Chennai, India: A Retrospective Study [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2023 Introduction: Admission blood glucose levels have an impact on hospitalisation and Length Of Stay (LOS). Uncontrolled blood glucose levels have been found to affect patients’ outcomes.
Dineshkumar Saravanan +1 more
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Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2021 Importance The efficacy of vitamin D3 supplementation in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) remains unclear. Objective To investigate the effect of a single high dose of vitamin D3 on hospital length of stay in patients with COVID-19.
Igor H. Murai +16 more
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A systematic review of the prediction of hospital length of stay: Towards a unified framework
PLOS Digital Health, 2022 Hospital length of stay of patients is a crucial factor for the effective planning and management of hospital resources. There is considerable interest in predicting the LoS of patients in order to improve patient care, control hospital costs and ...
Kieran Stone +3 more
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An explainable machine learning framework for lung cancer hospital length of stay prediction
Scientific Reports, 2022 This work introduces a predictive Length of Stay (LOS) framework for lung cancer patients using machine learning (ML) models. The framework proposed to deal with imbalanced datasets for classification-based approaches using electronic healthcare records (
B. Alsinglawi +6 more
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Interventions to Reduce Hospital Length of Stay in High-risk Populations
JAMA Network Open, 2021 Key Points Question Which hospital-led interventions are associated with reducing length of stay (LOS) for high-risk populations? Findings In this systematic review including 19 systematic reviews, 8 strategies for reducing LOS in high-risk populations ...
S. Siddique +7 more
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Worsening of emergency department length of stay during the COVID‐19 pandemic
Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open, 2021 Our study sought to determine whether there was a change in emergency department (ED) length of stay (LOS) during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic compared to prior years.
A. Lucero +7 more
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