Long-term care institutions are used by residential patients who stay for many years and patients with specific ailments who stay for relatively short periods. The presence of short-stay patients is not adequately recorded by cross-sectional surveys which have been used to measure nursing home use. To obtain a better understanding about the mix of long-stay and short-stay patients, we created a...

Statistics are presented on the utilization of short-stay hospitals based on data collected in the Hospital Discharge Survey from a national sample of hospital records of discharged patients. Discharges, days of care, and average length of stay are distributed by each of the variables age, sex, and color of patient and by geographic region, bed size, and type of ownership (control) of hospital....

Aim: The purpose of this study is to present our experience of total extraperitoneal inguinal hernia repair and to know the feasibility of short course hospital stay Method: Between November 2013 to November 2016 over a period of three years, 100 consecutive patients who underwent TEP at Department of surgery, Max Super speciality Hospital, Gurgaon were prospectively reviewed. Data on patient's...

The 1983 amendments to the Social Security Act (Public Law 98-21) provided for a prospective payment system (PPS), effective October 1, 1983, for most short-stay hospitals certified to provide inpatient services to Medicare beneficiaries. A brief description of the assignment process for diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) is presented, because assigning a DRG code to a short-stay hospital discharg...

BACKGROUND To determine the extent to which 30- and 90-day hospital readmission and mortality rates differ as a function of whether a chest pain patient is placed in observation status or admitted to the hospital for a short-stay (<48 h). METHODS Using 114,043 observation stays and short-stay admissions for chest pain at Veterans Health Administration hospitals between 2005 and 2013, we estim...

This article presents current and recent historical data on the number of providers and suppliers of services certified to participate in the Medicare and/or Medicaid programs. Presented in Table 1 is a historical perspective for the years 1981-87. Presented in Tables 2 and 3 are regional and State data on the number of certified health facilities at the beginning of 1987. Selected highlights a...

SIR—The paper by Supervia et al. [1] published in Age and Ageing showed that the Barthel Index could predict the length of stay (LOS) of elderly patients in a Short Stay Unit (SSU). Strict admission criteria are applied in these units because their expected average stay is 4–5 days. Frequently, patients with perceived 'social problems' are excluded from admission [2], assuming that social needs...

OBJECTIVE Documentation of the morbidity in sickle cell patients presenting at the Northern Area Armed Forces Hospital, Hafr Al Batin, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the burden of delivering care to these patients. METHODS The record charts of all Saudi patients with Sickle Cell Anemia (SCA) admitted between June 1994 through to July 2001 were retrospectively analyzed. Focus was on age of patien...

Objective-To assess the effect ofa programme of postoperative community surveillance on the rate of detection ofwound complications after operation for inguinal hernia. Design-Prospective audit of wound complications including complications recorded in case notes and those discovered by community surveillance. Setting-Academic surgical unit of three consultant surgeons. Patients-510 patients un...