Risk factors associated with prolonged hospital length-of-stay: 18-year retrospective study of hospitalizations in a tertiary healthcare center in Mexico.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hospital length-of-Stay has been traditionally used as a surrogate to evaluate healthcare efficiency, as well as hospital resource utilization. Prolonged Length-of-stay (PLOS) is associated with increased mortality and other poor outcomes. Additionally, these patients represent a significant economic problem on public health systems and their families. We sought to describe and compare characteristics of patients with Normal hospital Length-of-Stay (NLOS) and PLOS to identify sociodemographic and disease-specific factors associated with PLOS in a tertiary care institution that attends adults with complicated diseases from all over Mexico.

Materials and methods

We conducted a retrospective analysis of hospital discharges from January 2000-December 2017 using instit

SUBMITTER: Marfil-Garza BA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6224124 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature