Factors influencing the length of hospital stay among patients resident in Blackpool admitted with COPD: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To identify the differential effects of patient, health service, temporal and geographic factors on length of stay (LOS) for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)-related admissions.

Design

We used stratified Cox proportional hazard model to evaluate the association between LOS and patient, health service, temporal and geographical factors.

Setting

Patients resident in Blackpool, North West England, admitted to the local hospital with COPD.

Participants

We used the Admitted Patient Care General Episode Commissioning Dataset for the period 1 April 2005-31 March 2010. We analysed records of admission spells among patients resident in Blackpool aged 40 years or older admitted with a primary diagnosis of COPD.

Results

There were 2410 admiss

SUBMITTER: Agboado G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3437423 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature