Slumpograms, mortality and long hospital stays

Friday and weekend hospital stays: effects on mortality.

While weekend hospital admissions are associated with higher mortality, the effects of weekend hospital stays are not known. We assessed whether patients hospitalised for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or pneumonia have higher mortality during weekend and Friday stays. Our cohort consisted of all hospitalisations for COPD or pneumonia during 1990-2007 from the healthcare databases...

The Lengths of Psychiatric Hospital Stays and Community Stays

The public policy of deinstitutionalization has predominated mental health planning and decision-making in recent decades. The government and consumer groups have joined together to find ways to decrease the state mental hospital inpatient population. There is a consistent belief in the need to reduce the utilization of inpatient care that has resulted in a decline from 413,066 state mental hos...

Addressing Long-term Stays in Hospital for People with Mental Health and Addictions Concerns

Length of hospital stays among obese individuals.

OBJECTIVES We examined lengths of hospital stay among individuals categorized according to weight status. METHODS We used data from the First National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Epidemiologic Followup Survey to estimate length-of-stay differences. RESULTS Individuals with body mass indexes (BMIs) of 35 kg/m2 or above, those with BMIs of 30 to 34 kg/m2, and those with BMIs of 25...

Shorter hospital stays for breast cancer.

OBJECTIVES This article examines trends in and factors influencing the length of stay for female breast cancer patients who were hospitalized between 1981 and 2000. DATA SOURCES The hospital data are from the Hospital Morbidity Database and the Health Person-oriented Information Database, both maintained by Statistics Canada. Data on new cases of breast cancer are from the Canadian Cancer Reg...