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BMC Emergency Medicine, 2019 Background The Sydney Triage to Admission Risk Tool (START) is a validated clinical analytics tool designed to estimate the probability of in-patient admission based on Emergency Department triage characteristics.
Anja Ebker-White +3 more
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Hospitalization time after open appendectomy by three different surgical techniques
ABCD: Arquivos Brasileiros de Cirurgia Digestiva, 2014 BACKGROUND: The choice of surgical technique to approach the appendicular stump depends mostly on skill and personal preference of the surgeon or on the protocol used in the service, and the influence of this choice in hospitalization time is not ...
Agláia Moreira Garcia XIMENES +5 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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Factors affecting length of stay in Children Hospital in Southern Iran
BMC Health Services Research, 2019 Background One of the effective indicators for determining the efficiency and optimal use of hospital resources is the length of stay (LOS). This study aimed to determine the patients’ length of stay and the factors affecting the LOS in the Children’s ...
Tayebeh Baniasadi +3 more
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BMC Health Services Research, 2018 BackgroundHealthcare systems internationally are under an ever-increasing demand for services that must be delivered in an efficient, effective and affordable manner.
S. Attrill +4 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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Associations of Emergency Department Length of Stay With Publicly Reported Quality-of-care Measures. [PDF]
, 2017 OBJECTIVE: The Institute of Medicine identified emergency department (ED) crowding as a critical threat to patient safety. We assess the association between changes in publicly reported ED length of stay (LOS) and changes in quality-of-care measures in a
Chang, Anna Marie +4 more
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Improving length of stay on a trauma service [PDF]
Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open, 2021 BackgroundReducing length of stay (LOS) is a major healthcare initiative. While LOS is closely linked to the diagnosis and procedure in elective surgery, many additional factors influence LOS on a trauma service. We hypothesized that more standardized patient management would lead to decreased LOS.MethodsRetrospective analysis of Trauma Registry data ...
Walter L Biffl +5 more
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BMJ Open, 2018 Objectives To measure changes in length of stay following total knee and hip replacement (TKR and THR) between 1997 and 2014 and estimate the impact on hospital reimbursement, all else being equal.
E. Burn +7 more
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The Effect of Complications on Length of Stay
Annals of Surgery, 1994 The authors determined the effect of complications on length of stay (LOS) in surgical patients.From 1987 to 1990, in the Professional General Surgical Unit of Royal Victoria Hospital, a retrospective survey was conducted on 5128 consecutively admitted patients with 396 different diagnosis; 228 different operations were examined.Patient LOS during a 3 ...
William Odling-Smee, Paul McAleese
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