Does the use of bedside ultrasonography reduce emergency department length of stay for patients with renal colic?: a pilot study [PDF]
Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine, 2016 Objective The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of adding bedside ultrasonography to the diagnostic algorithm for nephrolithiasis on emergency department (ED) length of stay.
Yong Hoon Park +7 more
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The impact of nighttime intensivists on medical intensive care unit infection-related indicators [PDF]
, 2015 In 2013, a before-and-after intervention study was conducted to evaluate the effect 24-hour intensivist coverage on length of stay and rates of catheter-associated urinary tract infection, central-line associated blood stream infection, and ventilator ...
Babcock, Hilary M +3 more
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Journal of Nepal Medical Association, 2020 Introduction: Emergency department of a hospital is responsible for providing medical and surgical care to patients arriving at the hospital in need of immediate care. Emergency department is not staffed or equipped to provide prolonged care. Duration of
Prashant Simkhada +5 more
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THE INFLUENCE OF DESTINATION ATTRIBUTES ON TOURISTS’ LENGTH OF STAY IN KEBUMEN REGENCY, CENTRAL JAVA
Jurnal Bisnis dan Manajemen, 2021 UNWTO states that the record of the length of stay of tourists in most tourist destinations in the world tends to be low and decreasing. In line with this issue, Kebumen Regency is recorded to have a low tourist length of average stay duration, which is ...
Fajar Aditya Nugroho +2 more
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Excess length of hospital stay due to healthcare acquired infections. Methodologies evaluation [PDF]
, 2019 BACKGROUND: Healthcare acquired infections (HAI) cause an increase of burden and in particular excess length of hospital stay (LOS) accounts for approximately up to 90% of total costs.
Giraldi, G. +4 more
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BMC Health Services Research, 2017 Background Accurate calculation of hospital length of stay (LOS) from the English Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) is important for a wide range of audit and research purposes.
John Busby +2 more
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BMC Emergency Medicine, 2023 Background We hypothesized that an emergency short-stay ward (ESSW) mainly operated by emergency medicine physicians may reduce the length of patient stay in emergency department without expense of clinical outcomes.
Sean Moon +6 more
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Stronger instruments via integer programming in an observational study of late preterm birth outcomes [PDF]
, 2013 In an optimal nonbipartite match, a single population is divided into matched pairs to minimize a total distance within matched pairs. Nonbipartite matching has been used to strengthen instrumental variables in observational studies of treatment effects,
Goyal, Neera K. +4 more
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Effect of a machine learning-based severe sepsis prediction algorithm on patient survival and hospital length of stay: a randomised clinical trial. [PDF]
, 2017 IntroductionSeveral methods have been developed to electronically monitor patients for severe sepsis, but few provide predictive capabilities to enable early intervention; furthermore, no severe sepsis prediction systems have been previously validated in
Barton, Christopher W +4 more
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Same Day Discharge after Emergency Appendicectomy: Is it Feasible? [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2020 Introduction: In the UK, approximately 70,000 appendicectomies (one of the most common surgical procedures) are performed yearly. There is a wide variation in length of stay following Laparoscopic Appendicectomy (LA).
Alexander Achile Aikoye +3 more
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