BACKGROUND The study of length of stay (LOS) outliers is important for the management and financing of hospitals. Our aim was to study variables associated with high LOS outliers and their evolution over time. METHODS We used hospital administrative data from inpatient episodes in public acute care hospitals in the Portuguese National Health Service (NHS), with discharges between years 2000 a...

AIM identifying the variables that can help in quantifying/ predicting duration of hospital stay after inguinal hernia surgery. METHOD 257 patients who were diagnosed with inguinal hernia underwent surgery between January 2013 and October 2014 and were prospectively registered and statistically analyzed by using linear regression with the aim of emphasizing, calculating and validating the pre...

In this issue of Clinical Chemistry, Wu and Clive report an association between hospital length of stay (LOS) and the potential availability of CK-MB results (i.e., anticipated turnaround times, given the institutional approach to measurement) at acute-care hospitals in Massachusetts [1]. They report a 0.7-day reduction in mean hospital LOS for those patients with an acute myocardial infarction...

A model to predict the Length of Stay (LOS) for hospitalized patients can be an effective tool for measuring the consumption of hospital resources. Such a model will enable early interventions to prevent complications and prolonged LOS and also enable more efficient utilization of manpower and facilities in hospitals. In this paper, the authors propose an approach for Predicting Hospital Length...

Critical care providers are faced with resource shortages and must find ways to effectively plan their resource utilization. Neural networks provide a new method for evaluating trauma patient (and other medical patient) level of illness and accurately predicting a patient’s length of stay at the critical care facility. Backpropagation, radial-basis-function, and fuzzy ARTMAP neural networks are...

BACKGROUND The nutritional status (NS) of patients with neoplasms can affect length of hospital stay. AIM To investigated nutritional changes and risk factors associated with length of hospital stay in patients with neoplasms. METHODS A cross-sectional study was done to investigate nutritional status by classic anthropometry, energy intake, gastrointestinal changes, indicators of nutritiona...

BACKGROUND NutritionDay is an annual worldwide cross-sectional multicentre audit. This report aimed to describe the results of nutritionDay 2010 in Jinling hospital, providing a map of the prevalence of malnutrition and actual nutrition therapy practice in different units. The risk factors to malnutrition and length of hospital stay were also investigated. METHODS The data was collected from ...

PURPOSE To evaluate the effect of preoperative comorbidity status (defined by the Deyo index) on hospital mortality, postoperative complications, length of hospital stay, and hospital costs for shoulder arthroplasty patients. METHODS The overall mean hospital mortality and postoperative complication rates, and length of hospital stay and hospital costs stratified by the Deyo score were compar...

INTRODUCTION Implementation of the principles of a fast-track surgical programme resulted in a decrease in the length of hospital stay after open nephrectomies. The aim of this study was to describe the regional distribution of nephrectomies, postoperative hospital stay and mortality. MATERIAL AND METHODS This study was based on data extracted from the Danish National Patient Registry for the...