Whether one examines the average length of hospital stay at the level of geographic areas, at the level of hospitals, or at the level of doctors, length-of-stay figures are known to vary widely. Even for hospital admissions for comparable surgical procedures among comparable groups of patients, significant length-of-stay variations have been reported. As is the case for variations in the occurr...

BACKGROUND To assess the development of and variation in lengths of stay in Dutch hospitals and to determine the potential reduction in hospital days if all Dutch hospitals would have an average length of stay equal to that of benchmark hospitals. METHODS The potential reduction was calculated using data obtained from 69 hospitals that participated in the National Medical Registration (LMR). ...

PURPOSE To analyze spatio-temporal variations of neonatal length of in-hospital stay in Canada. METHOD The length of in-hospital stay of 1,469,761 newborns in Canadian hospitals from April 1, 1984 to March 31, 1995 recorded by the Canadian Institute for Health Information was analyzed. RESULTS Neonatal length of in-hospital stay decreased from an average of 5.0 days in 1984 to 2.9 days in 1...

BackgroundWe aimed to compare the efficacy of nebulized hypertonic (3%, 5% and 7%) saline with normal saline in hospitalized infants with acute bronchiolitis.Materials and MethodsIn this triple-blinded randomized clinical trial, 120 children with moderate to severe bronchiolitis randomly assigned into four groups to receive nebulized normal saline (group A),  saline 3% (group B), saline 5% (gro...

Introduction Althoughthere is a consensus that the economic burden of burn injury is high, but few studies have conducted about cost of burns injury among pediatric in developing countries. We explored the main factors influencing on hospital costs and length of stay (LOS) associated with pediatric burns injury in Kermanshah, Iran. Methods and Material We performed a review ofmedical records fr...

conclusions there was no difference in clinical outcome after cardiac surgery when we administered an additional dose of methylprednisolone compared to a single dose of methylprednisolone. patients and methods sixty pediatric patients (age < 5years) undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass surgery between september 2011-2012 at imam reza hospital-mashhad were randomly assigned to receive preoperative ...

background and objective: improved and modified automation will require the development of smart process control systems that provide on-line decisions to release patients’ test results based on high analytical quality assurance formula. materials and methods: we collected patients’ test results from 10840 healthy subjects based on 1.96z as truncation limit for 29 common haematochemical analyte...