Background. Although the advantages of laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) over open cholecystectomy are immediately obvious and appreciated, several patients need a postoperative hospital stay of more than 24 hours. Thus, the predictive factors for this longer stay need to be investigated. The aim of this study was to identify the causes of a long hospital stay after LC. Methods. This is a retro...

Many children admitted to the Paediatric Intensive Care for management of serious illness recover quickly. This is reflected in a mean length stay <5 days many tertiary level critical care units. A small proportion infants and require prolonged paediatric intensive stay, due severity their illness, complexity medical nursing required, presence underlying co-morbidity. cohort patients have pa...

The stochastic high-patient-throughput surgery scheduling problem under a limited number of staffed ward beds is addressed in this paper. This work proposes novel way to minimize the risk last-minute cancellations by bounding likelihood exceeding beds. Given historical data, it possible determine an empirical distribution for length stay ward. Then, any given combinations patients, one can esti...

This study aimed to determine whether the admission Timed Up and Go Test (TUG) predicted the length of stay of patients in an acute geriatric ward. Consecutive patients were quasi-randomly allocated to either a model development sample or a model validation sample. Multivariate Cox proportional hazards regression was used to model length of stay. Variables considered for inclusion in the develo...

OBJECTIVE The goal was to establish the role of intravenous hydration therapy on mild bronchiolitis. METHODS This was a retrospective case control study. Infants between 1 month and 2 years of age admitted to our general pediatrics ward between June 2012 and June 2013 with a diagnosis of uncomplicated acute bronchiolitis were enrolled to the study. Hospital medical files were reviewed to get ...

This paper develops an aggregate stochastic model of an emergency department (ED) based on a careful study of data on individual patient arrival times and length of stay in the ED of the Rambam Hospital in Israel, which was used in a large-scale exploratory data analysis by Armony et al. (2015). This data set is of special interest because it has been made publicly available, so that the experi...

davood became fearful when he encountered with his diabetes diagnosis for first time. what effect does this disease can have on davood ’ s lifestyle? in this case, the nurse describes how davood ’ s fear is released by education. i met davood in 1992 for first time. he had been admitted in ward since two days ago, and he had been forced to stay at the hospital through neu-rooz holidays. he acce...

Background: Sleep patterns of patients who admitted the intensive care unit (ICU) after surgery have shown fragment and disturbed sleep during early postoperative days. However, there is less information about sleep status in patients after transferred to a surgical ward from the ICU. The aim of this study was to evaluate the sleep patterns in elderly patients after cardiac surgery including st...

BACKGROUND both acute and chronic renal dysfunction (ARD and CRD) have been reported to influence outcomes after neck of femur fractures. We have examined the relationship between the length of stay, mortality and renal dysfunction using biomarkers. These included pre-operative (admission) serum concentrations of urea, creatinine and albumin, and estimated glomerular filtration rates (eGFR) der...

BACKGROUND To determine whether adverse events extend the duration of hospitalization, and to evaluate the effectiveness of medical intervention in ameliorating adverse events and reducing the prolonged hospital stay associated with adverse events. METHODS A single arm intervention study was conducted from October 2012 to March 2014 in the otolaryngology ward of a 614-bed, university-affiliat...