Length of Stay
Length of Stay and Cost of Pediatric Readmissions
... WHAT’S KNOWN ON THIS SUBJECT: Despite the low rate of readmissions in children, readmission metrics are being adopted to adjust reimbursement payments. Although attention has been given to readmission rates in children, ...
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Does managed care make a difference? Physicians' length of stay decisions under managed and non managed care
... of stay truly does not affect the quality of ...short length of stay that is experienced in the United States, although it remains unclear whether this short length of stay is an effect ...
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Hospital Length of Stay Reduction: A Long Term Study
... on length of stay reduction and the development of pro- grams with local nursing homes to address Complex Care services, such as multiple intravenous medications, extensive wound care, and mental ...
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Factors influencing hospital high length of stay outliers
... Background: The study of length of stay (LOS) outliers is important for the management and financing of hospitals. Our aim was to study variables associated with high LOS outliers and their evolution over ...
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Length-of-Stay Policies and Ascertainment of Postdischarge Problems in Newborns
... Postpartum length of stay, clinical evaluation on day 3 or 4 of life, health center visits up to day 21, health center diagnoses of jaundice or feeding problems, bilirubin testing and test severity, ...
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Pediatric Milliman and Robertson Length-of-Stay Criteria: Are They Realistic?
... Results. In New York State during 1995, pediatric LOS was markedly divergent from M&R guidelines. In general, the percentage of discharges in excess of the criterion LOS was less for nonmandatory admissions (croup: ...
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Length-of-Stay Policies and Ascertainment of Postdischarge Problems in Newborns
... Postpartum length of stay, clinical evaluation on day 3 or 4 of life, health center visits up to day 21, health center diagnoses of jaundice or feeding problems, bilirubin testing and test severity, ...
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Intentions on desired length of stay among immigrants in Italy
... desired length of stay reflects gender ...to stay for a short time once finishing their studies or having retired (confirming previous results), non-active women are more inclined to intend to both ...
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Length of Stay, Jaundice, and Hospital Readmission
... between length of stay and method of delivery is confounding and, because we were interested primarily in the effect of length of stay on hospital readmission, we omitted the method of ...
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Predictors of length of stay in psychiatry: analyses of electronic medical records
... The results of this study showed that it was not possible to infer length of stay reliably from patient characteristics. Health care providers cannot rely on such data for decision-making but have to assess ...
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COPD exacerbation care bundle improves standard of care, length of stay, and readmission rates
... the length of stay by ...decreased length of stay, 90-day aggregate costs were also significantly lower in the COPD module-used group, with a mean decrease of ...decrease length of ...
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The length of stay of in patient stroke discharges in Irish acute hospitals
... in length of stay associated with organised (stroke unit) care and there may have been a modest reduction” (Stroke Unit Trialists’ Collaboration, ...
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Length of Stay in Hospital Following Occupational Injury
... of stay in hospital (LOS), following an injury has been shown to play significant role in predicting post injury health and functional outcomes such as quality of life [1] and disability ...
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The Correlation of Hospital Operational Efficiency and Average Length of Stay in China: A Study Based on Provincial Level Data
... of stay of the discharged inpatients from hospital in five ...average length of stay declines from 11 days to 10 ...erage length of stay annually, which indicates that each of the ...
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Prolongation of length of stay and Clostridium difficile infection: a review of the methods used to examine length of stay due to healthcare associated infections
... major costs associated with any healthcare associated infection (HAI) is excess hospitalisation, or prolongation of length of stay (LOS). A challenge for researchers is to design a study that accurately ...
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Benchmarking and reducing length of stay in Dutch hospitals
... For a large part of the data, adjustment for age, primary diagnosis and procedure amounts to an adjustment for severity of illness. However, we realise that there may still be residual case-mix related variation that is ...
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THE AVERAGE LENGTH OF STAY IN THE HOSPITAL OF INFANTS BORN PREMATURELY
... This sample includes premature infants (birth weight of 51/2 pouncds of less) or infants who were diagnosed as premature, when weight was not stated, for whom the EMIC Program paid for h[r] ...
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Comparison of Length of Stay for Asthma by Hospital Type
... A comorbidity severity score was assigned to each patient based on an assessment of the effect of listed comorbidities on the length of an asthma hospitalization. A score was generated for each patient by using a ...
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Impact of Postpartum Hospital-Stay Legislation on Newborn Length of Stay, Readmission, and Mortality in California
... several reasons why the results of the current study differ from those of previous studies. First, the popula- tion of infants and mothers in California differs from the specific subpopulations analyzed in previous ...
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Adherence to PALS Sepsis Guidelines and Hospital Length of Stay
... A minority of patients met the de fi nition of SS on arrival. Despite this, recogni- tion of progression of disease during the ED stay was not problematic for most patients. This does, however, highlight the need ...
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