BACKGROUND The aim of the present study was to assess the characteristics of long-stay inpatients in public and private Italian acute inpatient facilities, to identify risk factors and correlates of the long duration of hospital stay in these patients, and to identify possible barriers to alternative placements. METHODS All patients in 130 Italian public and private psychiatric inpatient unit...

  Background: There are challenges ahead of short-term hospitalization of low-risk patients hospitalized only for monitoring of severe disease who may die soon after admission. The purpose of this study was to suggest strategies for the management of ICU stay lengths and to ensure optimal use of ICU resources.   Methods: The study was conducted retrospectively on 246 patients admitted to 9 gene...

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...

Did Southern whites leave the Democratic Party over Civil Rights or because economic development and other secular changes in the region made the party’s platform increasingly unattractive to them? Answering this central question in American political economy has been hampered by lack of micro-data on racial attitudes from both before and after the Civil Rights era. Our contribution is to uncov...

Despite the existence of global targets to slow pace climate change, coal remains one most commonly used fuels that accounts for over 25% energy supply and consumption. Multiple factors explain why is still widely used: its relatively low prices, availability in developing countries, transportation costs path dependence, i.e. existing infrastructure. Coal consumption (non-OECD) countries has be...