[PDF] Top 20 Factors that contribute to prolonged length of stay in the hospital environment

... Objetivo: Identificar los factores que contribuyen al aumento del tiempo de internación en el ambiente de los hospitales. Método: se realizó un estudio prospectivo en clínicas quirúrgicas de hombres y mujeres de un ... See full document

... five of the potential risk factors addressed in our study ...tors that found to be significant in the first stage of the in- ferential ... See full document

... come to encompass any use of mobile telephony technology to address healthcare challenges such as access, quality, affordability, matching of resources, and behavioral norms ...partner ... See full document

... One of the hypotheses to explain the weak correlation between the variables in the present study is the fact that often, clinical factors such as ... See full document

... use of hospital resources is important for con- trolling spending and improving health care outcomes [1, ...For that aim, it is necessary to balance the interests of the ... See full document

... was to identify the factors associated with length of stay in the elderly of a university ...people in a hospital, located in the ... See full document

... finding of the association between diagnostic testing and ED stay may result from two phenomena: the complex process of these diagnostic tests, and the use of unnecessary ... See full document

... used to identify independent risk factors for prolonged ...hospitalization. To explore potential predictors of the length of hospital stay after ... See full document

... showed the decreases in the operation time, postoperative ICU stay, postoperative hospital stay, use of blood products, hospital costs and the length ... See full document

... risk of con- tracting a healthcare-associated infection; however, length of hospital stay is also a marker for the severity of the underly- ing ...be the ... See full document

... 2010 to January 2013, in a university hospital in South of ...levels of frailty were identified according to the Edmonton Frail ...total of 177 ...than ... See full document

... Objective: To evaluate the association between extubation failure and outcomes (clinical and functional) in patients with traumatic brain injury ...TBI. The patients were divided into two ... See full document

... total of 480 children were positive by immuno-fluorescent assay for influenza during ...2005–2009. The hospitalizations for influenza occurred in 8–12 months of the year, most commonly ... See full document

... represent the most frequent cause of hospitalization in the dermatology department of Santa Maria Hospital in Lisbon, ...Portugal. The aim of this study was ... See full document

... one of the most causes of deaths related to the injury in the first two decades of life over the world (1, ...2). The burn injuries can be imposed ... See full document

... found that, among other variables, advanced age, previous use of mechanical ventilatory support, and neoplasic disease were directly related to ...suggested that nosocomial pneumonia accounts ... See full document

... and length of hospital stay were statistically ...Considering the association magnitude, these data should be interpreted cautiously, because they may not have clinical ...worthwhile ... See full document

... limitations that should be com- mented. Its retrospective nature prevents the preclu- sion of some confounding ...compared to the large samples re- quired for validation and hardly ... See full document

... study of 49 newborns undergoing primary repair of gastroschisis between January 1995 and December ...2010. The newborns’ characteristics were described with emphasis on nutritional aspects, ... See full document

... From the public health point of view the anti- microbial resistance is a problem that requires campaigns mainly associated with health care professionals, but also a language that can ... See full document