OBJECTIVE To examine factors affecting the length of hospital stay (LOS) of patients referred to psychiatric consultation liaison (C-L) services. METHODS The study sample prospectively included all the referrals in 2004 to the C-L psychiatry unit at King Khaled University Hospital in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The following factors were documented for each consultation: patient demograp...

Hospital discharge rates measure the number of patients who leave a hospital after staying at least one night. Improving timely can help flow through hospital, freeing up beds and health worker time. Both premature delayed discharges not only worsen outcomes but also increase costs: lead to costly readmissions; use limited resources.

The length of hospital stay and its implications have a significant economic human impact. As consequence, the prediction that key parameter has been subject to previous research in recent years. Most work analysed particular departments within specific study groups, which resulted successful rates, but only occasionally reporting predictive patterns. In this we report model for (LOS) together ...

conclusions this new suggested scale shows a better value to predict patients’ length of hospital stay compared to iss and niss. however, future studies with larger sample sizes and more confounding factors such as prehospital procedures, intubation and other procedures during admission, should be designed to examine these scoring systems and confirm the results of our study. background trauma ...

The primary aim of the research reported here is to examine elements of the theory of social organizations as adaptive systems as derived from Roy's model by investigating the ability of hospital payment source to predict length-of-stay. A retrospective review was conducted of 3,297 records of patients discharged under 1 of 10 frequently occurring diagnosis-related-groups. Two groups were forme...