[PDF] Top 20 Determinants of length of stay : a parametric survival analysis

... length of stay are mainly descriptive (Oppermannn 1995, 1997; Seaton and Palmer 1997; Sung, Morrison, Hong and Leary ...how length of stay varies with nationality, age, ... See full document

... the length of ...positive length of ...analyze length of stay for a pooled cross- section of tourists visiting the Balearic ...if length of ... See full document

... the survival analysis, we observed that patients with high undernutrition risk on admission had higher probabil- ity of remaining in the hospital at a certain point in time (p < ...bility ... See full document

... the length of stay of adults and elderly individuals in the “Vida Ativa Melhorando a Saúde” (VAMOS - Active Life Improving Health) program implemented in Primary Health Care (PHC) in ...total ... See full document

... association of anthropometric and derived indicators with LOS is ...some of the mentioned studies, the association between anthropometric and derived indicators with LOS was not adjusted for possible ... See full document

... the determinants of length of stay, as count data models naturally lend themselves to overcome the censoring and truncation data issues associated with the non-negative, integer nature ... See full document

... importance of a given sustainability practice or environmental initiative in the tourism industry as an integral part of a high quality holiday ...each of a total of 24 factors or ... See full document

... choice of the number of leisure trips and the number of total nights spent on these ...island of Mallorca. These authors assume that length of stay is a discrete ...treat ... See full document

... value of the firm. The results of a study on SMEs in India showed that they relied more on their own funds and comparatively less on borrowed funds (Dogra and Gupta ...pact of CAPINS and SIZ on ...CS ... See full document

... limitation of the present study relates to the methodological ...use of a historical control hinders the establishment of a causal association, its application in an institutional context becomes a ... See full document

... rates of successful cases were ...difference of success rates, sample size was considered sufficient for explaining that the observed effect size is a good estimator of the true effect size with a ... See full document

... As the HKW test compares (paired or unpaired) k samples based on the null hypothesis that the median differences within groups are not significant, in this research the groups were formed by decades (1910,1920, 1930 ... ... See full document

... 50% of the total shares, and the remaining shares being relatively ...firms of the research sample are considered as non family-owned ...adoption of that criterion, while used in the literature, has ... See full document

... importance of quantitative genetic analysis for breeders is reflected by the large number of publications in which this approach is ...potential of populations for intrapopulational im- ... See full document

... five of the potential risk factors addressed in our study ...stage of the in- ferential analysis, including, for example, surgery (within 30 days preceding infection) or endotracheal ... See full document

... rials of heat sink, coolant, flow direction, channel shape and size, velocity ratio between two channels, and so ...designs of the two-layered MCHS, researchers further constructed multilayered ... See full document

... To observe all fluid dynamics behavior originated by partially blocked effect, the average velocity profile is illustrated at Figures 5-7. Figure 5 illustrate the velocity profile for the non-blocked ge- ometries, for ... See full document

... severity of immunosuppression since it is also a predictor of TB recurrence ...results of the coefficient estimates of Diabetes were not ...This analysis showed that individuals with ... See full document

... A distribuição da mortalidade por idade pode assumir dois padrões extremos (DEMETRIUS 1978), sendo possível que todos os indivíduos morram com a mesma idade ou que os indivíduos [r] ... See full document

... predictors of increased resource consumption [2, 14, 15, ...list of ICD-9-CM codes has been validated by a cardiologist coding expert and, when recorded in secondary diagnoses in AD, it indicated the ... See full document