Association Between Room Location and Adverse Outcomes in Hospitalized Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate whether a patient's proximity to the nurse's station or ward entrance at time of admission was associated with increased risk of adverse outcomes.

Method

We conducted a retrospective cohort study of consecutive adult inpatients to 13 medical-surgical wards at an academic hospital from 2009 to 2013. Proximity of admission room to the nurse's station and to the ward entrance was measured using Euclidean distances. Outcomes of interest include development of critical illness (defined as cardiac arrests or transfer to an intensive care unit), inhospital mortality, and increase in length of stay (LOS).

Results

Of the 83,635 admissions, 4,129 developed critical illness and 1,316 died. The median LOS was 3 days. After adjusting for admission severity

SUBMITTER: Mayampurath A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6520200 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature