Open AccessSocial inequalities, length of hospital stay for chronic conditions and the mediating role of comorbidity and discharge destination: A multilevel analysis of hospital administrative data linked to the population census in Switzerland
Author(s) -
Lucy Bayer-Oglesby,
Andrea Zumbrunn,
Nicole Bachmann
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
plos one
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.99
H-Index - 332
ISSN - 1932-6203
DOI - 10.1371/journal.pone.0272265
Subject(s) - census , hospital discharge , comorbidity , demography , inequality , medicine , gerontology , multilevel model , population , environmental health , geography , statistics , intensive care medicine , psychiatry , sociology , mathematical analysis , mathematics