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Exploring if day and time of admission is associated with average length of stay among inpatients from a tertiary hospital in Singapore: an analytic study based on routine admission data

BACKGROUND: It has been postulated that patients admitted on weekends or after office hours may experience delays in clinical management and consequently have longer length of stay (LOS). We investigated if day and time of admission is associated with LOS in Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH), a 1,400 be...

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Autores principales: Earnest, Arul, Chen, Mark IC, Seow, Eillyne
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1395361/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16426459
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-6-6