Does service heterogeneity have an impact on acute hospital length of stay in stroke? A UK-based multicentre prospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine whether stroke patients' acute hospital length of stay (AHLOS) varies between hospitals, over and above case mix differences and to investigate the hospital-level explanatory factors.

Design

A multicentre prospective cohort study.

Setting

Eight National Health Service acute hospital trusts within the Anglia Stroke & Heart Clinical Network in the East of England, UK.

Participants

The study sample was systematically selected to include all consecutive patients admitted within a month to any of the eight hospitals, diagnosed with stroke by an accredited stroke physician every third month between October 2009 and September 2011.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

AHLOS was defined as the number of days between date of hospital adm

SUBMITTER: Tornes M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6500188 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature