Characteristics of short general internal medicine hospital stays: a multicentre cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Short hospital stays may represent opportunities to avert unnecessary admissions or expedite inpatient care. To inform the design of interventions that target patients with potentially avoidable hospital admissions or brief stays, we examined the patient, physician and situational characteristics associated with short stays among patients admitted to general internal medicine wards and describe the use of hospital resources by these patients.

Methods

This was a multicentre cross-sectional study conducted between Apr. 1, 2012, and Mar. 31, 2015, at 5 teaching hospitals in Toronto. We included all general internal medicine admissions through the emergency department. We examined patient, physician and situational predictors of a short hospital stay, which was define

SUBMITTER: Verma AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6349563 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan-Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature