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...

background:    previous studies suggest total hip arthroplasty may have some benefits compared to hemi-arthroplasty for displaced intracapsular femoral neck fractures in patients more than 60 years of age. the primary research question of our study was whether in-hospital adverse events, post-operative length of stay (los) and mortality in patients 60 year of age or older differed between total...

BACKGROUND Early discharge after childbirth is widely reported. In this study the authors examined trends in maternal length of hospital stay in Canada from fiscal year 1984-85 through fiscal year 1994-95. They also examined variations in length of stay in 1994-95 in most of the Canadian provinces and the territories. METHODS Epidemiologic analyses of the temporal and geographic variations in...

Length of stay (LOS) in acute psychiatric hospitals has long been a focus of attention and this has been heightened in recent years with the current economic climate and a growing realization that health care costs need to be contained. Length of stay (LOS) has a strong positive relationship with the cost of hospitalization; thus, LOS has become an important marker for hospital administrators, ...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether length of stay (LOS) for asthma admissions at a local university-affiliated children's hospital (UACH) is similar to that of community hospitals within the same county. METHODS A retrospective analysis was performed using computerized hospital abstract records from 1989 through 1994. The study population was children 1 to 18 years old whose first or only hospita...

BACKGROUND Comprehensive evaluations of the nutritional parameters associated with length of hospital stay are lacking. We investigated the association between malnutrition and length of hospital stay in a cohort of ambulatory adult patients. METHODS From September 2006 to June 2009, we systematically evaluated 1274 ambulatory adult patients admitted to hospital for medical or surgical treatm...

Objective: Congestive heart failure (CHF) has become one of the most important health care problems in western countries. This article focuses on the outpatient diagnosis and management of heart failure. We want to compare the outcome of patients who were treated with high dose diuretics in the emergency department (ED) without admission with patients who were admitted to hospi...

PURPOSE To identify variables affecting length of hospital stay after total hip replacement (THR) while controlling for potential confounders. METHODS Records of 199 consecutive elective unilateral THRs were reviewed. Clinical and demographic data including age, gender, body mass index, comorbidities, surgical factors (surgical approach, type of prosthesis, use of cement, operating time), ana...