Longest-stay patients.

Long-stay patients

• Objective: To determine the characteristics and resource utilization associated with long-stay patients in academic children’s hospitals. • Study design and methods: Retrospective cohort study using the Pediatric Health Information System database, which includes data from 34 noncompeting children’s hospitals in the United States. We defined long-stay patients as those with a length of stay (...

Factors influencing patients' length of stay.

This study was conducted to evaluate the ability of AN-DRG version 3.1 to predict variation in patients' length of stay in hospital (LOS) and identify other factors that can influence the LOS by using routinely collected hospital morbidity data. A total of 18 DRGs that comprised 4,589 episodes were analysed. Multiple regression was used to model length of stay as a function of a number of indep...

A Survey of Long-stay Schizophrenic Patients.

Cross, Harrington and Mayer-Gross (1957), in a survey of the long-stay population of a Birmingham mental hospital, came to the con clusion that “¿ onlyvery small proportions required constant vigilance and about two thirds required routine care only.. . . The large majority of patients were ambulant the whole day― but almost one-third had physical diseases of some kind. The major problem wa...

Longest Tokenization

Longest Biased Interval and Longest Non-negative Sum Interval

UNLABELLED Described is an algorithm to find the longest interval having at least a specified minimum bias in a sequence of characters (bases, amino acids), e.g. 'at least 0.95 (A+T)-rich'. It is based on an algorithm to find the longest interval having a non-negative sum in a sequence of positive and negative numbers. In practice, it runs in linear time; this can be guaranteed if the bias is r...