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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 +5 more
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Determinants of tourists' length of stay.
PLoS ONE, 2021 This paper aims to identify the determinants of the length of stay (LoS) of international tourists in Norway. The paper reassesses the standard assumption related to tourists' LoS; it refers to the travel industry's current trends, and it postulates a ...
Ove Oklevik +4 more
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Reducing the length of stay in hospital. [PDF]
BMJ, 1986 Unlike their British counterparts, Soviet health care planners have long adhered to a strategy of adding to the number of hospital beds each year. Consequently, the proportion of the population admitted to hospital has grown steadily; by 1983 this had reached the historically high level of 24'7%.
Mandy Ryan
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Trends in Length of Stay at Broadmoor [PDF]
Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1980 Little information is available about how long patients stay in the Special Hospitals. This paper describes what is believed to be the first systematic study of this topic.
David Tidmarsh
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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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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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