Length of Stay After Childbirth in 92 Countries and Associated Factors in 30 Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Compilation of Reported Data and a Cross-sectional Analysis from Nationally Representative Surveys [PDF]
Background: Following childbirth, women need to stay sufficiently long in health facilities to receive adequate care. Little is known about length of stay following childbirth in low- and middle-income countries or its determinants.
B Chalmers +33 more
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Length of stay in a rural hospital
The length of hospital stay of 754 patients who were dischanged from a rural hospital in Wakayama Prefecture in 1957, was investigated.The frequency distribution of the length of stay in this hospital was well agreed with that obtained from the nation-wide investigation performed by Ministry of Health and Welfare of Japan.
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Our objective was to develop a model to predict the length of stay of patients using data from MCV. We conducted our analysis using a dataset of over 130,000 patients described by 66 features.
Hakem, Keroles +2 more
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Survey of Elderly Trauma Patients with Prolonged Emergency Department Stays
Background: This study was undertaken to determine the factors occurring in elderly trauma patients that cause emergency department (ED) physicians to spend much time evaluating them, thereby delaying their discharge or admission, and how misdiagnosis or
Wen-Han Chang +2 more
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Ridesharing as an Alternative to Ambulance Transport for Voluntary Psychiatric Patients in the Emergency Department [PDF]
Introduction: Emergency department (ED) crowding is a growing problem. Psychiatric patients have long ED lengths of stay awaiting placement and transportation to a psychiatric facility after disposition.Methods: Retrospective analysis of length of ED ...
Blome, Andrea +3 more
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One in 100: Behind Bars in America 2008 [PDF]
Examines the prison population's growth by gender, race/ethnicity, age, and state, and the costs of that growth, including its impact on other state funding priorities.
Jenifer Warren
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Background Patients with congenital heart disease require surgery to correct the cardiac defect they had in order to prevent heart failure. Unfortunately, data regarding outcome of adult CHD in Indonesia is still limited.
Juni Kurniawaty, Yunita Widyastuti
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Healthcare data mining: predicting inpatient length of stay [PDF]
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.
El-Darzi, E. +11 more
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The determinants of length of stay in the Azores : a count model approach [PDF]
This paper employs count data models to estimate the determinants of length of stay, as count models overcome censoring and truncation data issues associated with the positive integer nature of length of stay.
Menezes, António Gomes de +1 more
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Outlier admissions of medical patients: Prognostic implications of outlying patients. The experience of the Hospital of Mestre [PDF]
The admission of a patient in wards other than the appropriate ones, known as the patient outlying phenomenon, involves both Medicine and Geriatric Units of many Hospitals.
Aprile, Anna +5 more
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