The term Diagnosis-related Group (DRG) refers to a classification system used to assess hospital services with the aim of a better management of health care costs and improving performance. The DRG system focuses on the utilization of resources, and is not concerned with the specific type of care provided to the patient. This system highlights any diseconomies and eventual critical aspects of t...

BACKGROUND Patients with comorbidities are becoming more and more common in Italian rehabilitative wards. These comorbidities are considered a major problem for inpatient rehabilitation, due to the fact that they cause longer lengths of stay, higher costs, and lower functional results. METHODS To investigate the possible relationships between comorbidity, functional impairment, age, and type ...

BACKGROUND The vacuum assisted closure (VAC) therapy has revolutionized the modern wound care. We developed a new concept of 'VAC at home' in order to decrease the hospital cost. METHODS The study was conducted in a private hospital from January 2009 to December 2010. Only those patients were included among whom the wounds were not complicated by concomitant injury and the patients were other...

Abstract Aim This study aims to assess the impact of pre-operative factors on length stay in patients following total knee replacement at our institution. Method A 478 between January 2017-Decemeber 2019 are included this study. All underwent with a medial rotating prosthesis (MRK; Matt Ortho UK). Data for each patient was collated retrospectively and following: Patient demographics (age sex), ...

BACKGROUND Early discharge after childbirth is widely reported. In this study the authors examined trends in maternal length of hospital stay in Canada from fiscal year 1984-85 through fiscal year 1994-95. They also examined variations in length of stay in 1994-95 in most of the Canadian provinces and the territories. METHODS Epidemiologic analyses of the temporal and geographic variations in...

Reduction of the inappropriate hospital patient stay for hospitals has been an important issue for healthcare policy-makers and practitioners. Understanding factors influencing the likelihood of inappropriate hospital patient stay is critical in developing healthcare policy for reducing inappropriate hospital utilization. Hence, the present study aims to determine factors of inappropriate hospi...

Prescription opioid and heroin abuse have been increasing steadily year after year, and continue to be a serious national problem. A sequela of the increase in opioid abuse has been an increase in the number of infants born with opioid dependence. These infants often require costly, prolonged stays in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) for drug withdrawal treatment. The authors studied a p...

Aims, Objectives and Background In a busy paediatric emergency department triage decisions are critical to patient flow (see figure 1). addition sorting patients by acuity the initiation of early interventions at is pivotal. Effective use has potential significantly reduce lengths stay. 1,2 Method Design Adhering PRISMA guidelines, we utilised key words ‘children’, ‘triage’ ‘length stay’ search...