Reducing Length of Hospital Stay Does Not Increase Readmission Rates in Early-Stage Gastric, Colon, and Lung Cancer Surgical Cases in Japanese Acute Care Hospitals

BACKGROUND: The Japanese government has worked to reduce the length of hospital stay by introducing a per-diem hospital payment system that financially incentivizes the timely discharge of patients. However, there are concerns that excessively reducing length of stay may reduce healthcare quality, s...

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Autores principales: Kunisawa, Susumu, Fushimi, Kiyohide, Imanaka, Yuichi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5104332/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27832182
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0166269

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5104332/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27832182
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0166269

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