Hospital discharges and average length of stay

Hospital discharges and length of stay: short-stay hospitals United States - july 1963-june 1964.

An estimated 24.8 million discharges from short-stay hospitals, involving at least one night's stay, occurred among the civilian, noninstitutional population during an average 12-month period ending during July 1963-June 1964. This estimate was derived from two sources-the Health Interview Survey and the National Mortality Survey, National Center for Health Statistics. Data obtained in househol...

Assessing HMO Performance: Average Length-Of-Stay

Psychiatric consultations and length of hospital stay.

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...

Average hospital length of stay, nurses' work demands, and their health and job outcomes.

PURPOSE To examine the relationship between average hospital length of stay (LOS) of nursing units and work demands perceived by nurses, and between work demands and nurses' health and job outcomes. DESIGN A cross-sectional study using nurse survey data collected in a tertiary university hospital in Seoul, South Korea, in 2013 including 746 staff nurses working on 36 general, oncology, or int...

Hospital payment source and length-of-stay.

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...