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Factors influencing hospital high length of stay outliers

BACKGROUND: The study of length of stay (LOS) outliers is important for the management and financing of hospitals. Our aim was to study variables associated with high LOS outliers and their evolution over time. METHODS: We used hospital administrative data from inpatient episodes in public acute car...

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Autores principales: Freitas, Alberto, Silva-Costa, Tiago, Lopes, Fernando, Garcia-Lema, Isabel, Teixeira-Pinto, Armando, Brazdil, Pavel, Costa-Pereira, Altamiro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3470984/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22906386
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-12-265