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Objective: Long hospitalizations are associated with a high comorbidity and considerable hospital cost. Admissions of severe acute ischemic stroke are prone to longer hospitalizations. We aimed to explore the issue and method for improving the length...

The aim of this analysis was to assess the costs associated with the hospitalizations of persons with diabetes in a Romanian public hospital. We performed a retrospective “top-down” cost analysis of all adult patients discharged from a te...

Background and Objective. Timely assessment and prevention of risk factors for the main perioperative complications in elderly patients provide an opportunity to avoid them, decrease mortality, and diminish costs associated with longer hospital stay....

Predicting hospital length of stay is critical for efficient hospital management, enabling proactive resource allocation, the optimization of bed availability, and optimal patient care. This paper explores the potential of machine learning algorithms...

Hospital length of stay (HLOS) is a critical healthcare metric influencing patient outcomes, resource utilization, and healthcare costs. While reducing HLOS can improve hospital efficiency and patient throughput, it also poses risks such as premature...

Objectives: Body packing is one of the methods used to smuggle illicit drugs and items. Identifying the drug and eradicating drug packs are essential tasks to complete in the shortest possible time to reduce the risk of toxicity. Polyethylene glycol...

Background: Disease-related malnutrition is highly prevalent among hospitalized patients and is associated with increased mortality, complications, and prolonged hospital stays. Early identification of patients at nutritional risk is therefore essent...

Background and Aim: The increasing prevalence and high hospitalization rates make atrial fibrillation (AF) a significant healthcare strain. However, there are limited data regarding the length of hospital stay (LOS) of AF patients. Our purpose was to...

(1) Background: Older adults comprise a large proportion of hospitalized patients. Many are frail and require complex care. Geriatrics has developed models of care specific to this inpatient population. Our objective was to demonstrate the effect of...

Background: Pneumonia of viral and polymicrobial origin predominates the pathological profile of clinical childhood pneumonia, with high admissions rates in recent times. Identifying factors associated with prolonged hospital stay may aid in developi...

Background: Prior studies have documented racial and ethnic differences in mental healthcare utilization, and extensively in outpatient treatment and prescription medication usage for mental health disorders. However, limited studies have investigate...

Introduction: Women with late-stage metastatic breast cancer are at an increased risk of pain and distress from symptoms and often struggle with associated emotional and financial burden of their disease. Palliative care is known to alleviate symptom...

Background and objectives: There has been a recent increase in older patients admitted to general hospitals. A significant percentage of hospitalized older patients are ≥75 years old, which differ from the patients aged 65 to 74 years old in terms of...

Objective: There is a scarcity of data on hospital length of stay (LOS) in the osteoarthritis population. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate hospital LOS and associated factors in patients with osteoarthritis from Germany. Methods: The presen...

Background: Nutritional status is related to the prognosis and length of hospital stay (LOS) of patients with hypertension (HT). This study aimed to assess how nutritional status and body mass index (BMI) affect LOS for patients with hypertension. Me...

Background: Poor food intake is an independent risk factor for malnutrition in oncology patients, and achieving adequate nutrition is essential for optimal clinical and health outcomes. This study investigated interrelationships between nutritional i...

The effect of emergency department (ED) length of stay (EDLOS) on in-hospital mortality (IHM) remains unclear. The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to determine the association between EDLOS and IHM. We searched the PubMed, Medline...

Background: Patients undergoing open-heart surgery (OHS) are at risk of postoperative morbidity and mortality. Physical performance has been increasingly recognized as an important factor influencing postoperative outcomes. Therefore, the study aimed...

Background and Objectives: Venous thromboembolism is one of the leading causes of mortality and disability worldwide. Treatment with anticoagulation therapy is essential and requires a delicate approach to select the most appropriate option to improv...

In July 2020, Mayo Clinic introduced a hospital-at-home program, known as Advanced Care at Home (ACH) as an alternate option for clinically stable medical patients requiring hospital-level care. This retrospective cohort study evaluates the impact of...

Background and Objectives: Preoperative systemic inflammation and nutritional status are known to affect prognosis and length of hospital stay (LoS) in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). The Naples Prognostic Score (NP...

Objective: The aim of the present study was to evaluate the hospital length of stay (LoS) and its associated factors among adult patients hospitalized with depression in Germany. Methods: This cross-sectional study included all adults (≥18 years)...

Inguinal hernia repair remains one of the most frequently performed surgical procedures, but the problem of early postoperative complications remains significant, particularly in the context of surgical technique selection and patient age. The aim of...

Knowledge of the length of hospitalization of patients infected with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), its characteristics, and its related factors creates a better understanding of the impact of medical interventions and hospital capacities. Iran...

Background/Objectives: Pressure ulcers are an important patient safety concern. While staging frameworks guide clinical management, the association between anatomical site, stage, and multiple PU presence and outcomes such as length of stay (LOS) and...

Background/Objectives: Prolonged hospitalization of clinically stable preterm infants may lead to nosocomial infections, interfere with breastfeeding, and hinder parent-infant bonding. We evaluated the impact of an early discharge program with hospit...

Background: The disparities in healthcare access due to varying insurance coverage significantly impact hospital outcomes, yet what is unclear is the role of insurance in providing care once the patient is in the hospital for a preventable admission,...

Although hospital length of stay (LOS) has been identified as a proxy measure of healthcare expenditures in the United States, there are limited studies investigating the potentially important association between outdoor air pollution and LOS for ped...

Understanding how hospital length of stay (LoS) evolves with successive SARS-CoV-2 variants is central to the multiscale modeling and forecasting of COVID-19 and other respiratory virus dynamics. Using records from 1249 COVID-19 patients admitted to...

Background/Objectives: Chronic heart failure (CHF) remains a significant global health burden, with high morbidity, prolonged hospitalizations, and increased mortality. Traditional biomarkers such as NT-proBNP provide prognostic value; however, novel...

Background: The Pulmonary Embolism Severity Index (PESI) is an extensively validated prognostic score, but impact analyses of the PESI on management strategies, outcomes and health care costs are lacking. Our aim was to assess whether the adoption of...

Objectives: This study investigated the associations of biochemical and body water distribution parameters with dengue status, as well as their discriminatory ability, among hospitalized adults with febrile illnesses and evaluated whether dynamic cha...

Pelvic and acetabular fractures are challenging for orthopedic surgeons, but 3D printing has many benefits in treating these fractures and has been applied worldwide. This study aimed to determine whether 3D printing can shorten the length of hospita...

Outcome of falciparum malaria is largely influenced by the standard of care provided, which in turn depends on the available medical resources. Worldwide, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on the availability of these resources, even in re...

Community-acquired infections (CAI) can affect the duration of care and mortality of patients. Therefore, we aimed to investigate these as well as factors influencing the length of hospital stay in patients with CAI due to enteric pathogens, influenz...

Background: Hospitalizations among patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) carry substantial mortality risk, but length of stay (LOS) is time-dependent and may reflect heterogeneous inpatient trajectories. We examined unadjusted and adjusted LOS...

Background: Oral cavity cancer is a clinically relevant subgroup of head and neck malignancies and is associated with substantial treatment burden and healthcare utilization. Hospital length of stay (LOS) is an important indicator of inpatient resour...

Frailty reduces resilience to surgical stress, increasing vulnerability to adverse outcomes. While recovery efforts traditionally focus on the postoperative phase, the preoperative period offers better opportunities for lifestyle interventions. Preha...

The association between emergency department (ED) length of stay (EDLOS) with in-hospital mortality (IHM) in older patients remains unclear. This retrospective study aims to delineate the relationship between EDLOS and IHM in elderly patients. From t...

Background: Emerging evidence highlights the critical role of discharge planning teams in enhancing patient care. However, there is lack of data regarding how the implementation of a discharge planning system influences the length of stay (LOS) in ho...

Background/Objectives: To assess associations between quantitative computed tomography (CT) features, inflammatory markers, and length of hospital stay (LOS) in acute pyelonephritis (APN). Methods: This retrospective single-center study included 82 p...

Unmanaged pharmacogenomic and drug interaction risk can lengthen hospitalization and may have influenced the severe health outcomes seen in some COVID-19 patients. To determine if unmanaged pharmacogenomic and drug interaction risks were associated w...

This study was to determine whether prolonged emergency department (ED) length of stay (LOS) is associated with increased risk of in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA). A retrospective cohort with a nationwide database of all adult patients who visited t...

Hospital length of stay (LOS) is an important clinical and economic outcome and knowing its predictors could lead to better planning of resources needed during hospitalization. This analysis sought to identify structure, patient, and nutrition-relate...

Background: Prolonged hospitalization after endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal surgery for non-functioning pituitary adenomas increases costs and complications. Early identification of high-risk patients is crucial for optimizing perioperative mana...

Objective: Reducing the length of hospital stay (LOS) is a core objective in the management of acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AECOPD). This study aimed to develop an interpretable and clinically applicable machine learn...

Background: In the United States, ileus accounts for USD 750 million of healthcare expenditures annually and significantly contributes to morbidity and mortality. Despite its significance, the complete picture of mortality risk factors for these pati...

Excess length of stay (LOS) is an important outcome when assessing the burden of nosocomial infection, but it can be subject to survival bias. We aimed to estimate the change in LOS attributable to hospital-onset (HO) Escherichia coli/Klebsiella spp....

Background: The aim of this study was to identify pre-operative parameters able to predict length of stay (LoS) based on clinical data and patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) from a scorecard database in patients with significant aortic stenosi...

We use this study to analyze the trends in in-hospital length of stay, total hospital charges, and mortality among adult patients with a primary diagnosis of adult-onset still’s disease (AOSD). We used the 2016–2019 National Inpatient Sam...