1725 Successful Measures to Decrease Hospital Length of Stay in General Paediatrc Ward

Determining Factors Influencing Length of Stay and Predicting Length of Stay Using Data Mining in the General Surgery Department

Background: Length of stay is one of the most important indicators in assessing hospital performance. A shorter stay can reduce the costs per discharge and shift care from inpatient to less expensive post-acute settings. It can lead to a greater readmission rate, better resource management, and more efficient services. Objective: This study aimed to ident...

Length of stay in a general hospital psychiatric unit.

Fifty psychiatric inpatients with a prolonged length of stay were compared to 50 control admissions for factors associated with prolonged hospitalizations in a general hospital. Seven variables were found to be significantly overrepresented among the long stayers, including treatment with electroconvulsive therapy, medical consultations, underemployment, dementia, disposition to a place other t...

Predictors of Length of Hospital Stay in Stroke Patients and the Role of These Factors in the Management of Neurology Ward Hospital Beds

Introduction : The rate of first hospitalization for incidence of stroke has been significantly rising over the past 20 years and this requires proper management of the neurology ward beds. In this regard, the present study was conducted to evaluate the correlates of length of stay in stroke patients.  Method: the study design is descriptive and correlation. The study population consisted of 15...

Reducing the length of stay in hospital.

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 2477%. Although the extra capacity has been advantageous in several respects, it can scarcely have encoura...

Factors Affecting length of Stay in Specialized Women Hospital in Bandar Abbas