conclusions our study found that maximum serum glucose concentration positively correlated with the duration of mechanical ventilation, length of stay, and mortality. background the purpose of this study is to determine the frequency of hyperglycemia in nondiabetic critically ill children and to investigate its relationship with mechanical ventilation, length of stay and mortality. methods in t...

survival analysis is a set of methods used for analysis of the data which exist until the occurrence of an event. this study aimed to compare the results of the use of the semi-parametric cox model with parametric models to determine the factors influencing the length of stay of patients in the inpatient units of women hospital in tehran, iran. in this historical cohort study all 3421 charts of...

Background: Hospitals are overburdened by the number of patients both outdoor and indoor. This study was conducted to determine the length of stay of patients in medical units of a tertiary care hospital in our set up. Material & Methods: This descriptive study was conducted in the Department of Medicine, Postgraduate Medical Institute, Hayatabad Medical Complex Peshawar, Pakistan from April 15...

The length of hospital stay after coronary surgery was studied in 4,683 patients undergoing cardiac catheterization followed by coronary surgery at Emory University Hospital or Crawford Long Hospital between the years 1981 and 1986. Length of stay after coronary surgery had a median and modal value of 7 days. There was, however, a long statistical tail of patients with a prolonged length of sta...

conclusions this study shows that an adequate nutritional support, in patients with severe burn injury, can improve sofa score. it is also more cost-effective, resulting in a shorter los in hospital. background severe burned patients developed metabolic imbalances and systemic inflammatory response syndrome (sirs), which can lead to malnutrition, impaired immunologic response, multiple organ fa...