Open AccessClinical Analysis and Management of Long-Stay Patients
Author(s) -
Chienhsiu Huang
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of general medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.722
H-Index - 36
ISSN - 1178-7074
DOI - 10.2147/ijgm.s310217
Subject(s) - medicine , intensive care medicine
Worldwide, a certain proportion of patients stay for long periods. Reduction of length of stay is a critical intervention to optimize in-hospital resource utilization. Length of stay itself is a reliable quality index for healthcare systems. Interventions to reduce long hospital stays require understanding organizational and individual factors that affect the length of stay. The purposes of this study are to attempt to reduce long stays (defined as >30 days) by identifying the causes and preventing such situations.