Calculating hospital length of stay using the Hospital Episode Statistics; a comparison of methodologies

BACKGROUND: Accurate calculation of hospital length of stay (LOS) from the English Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) is important for a wide range of audit and research purposes. The two methodologies which are commonly used to achieve this differ in their accuracy and complexity. We compare these m...

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Autores principales: Busby, John, Purdy, Sarah, Hollingworth, William
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5427566/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28499377
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-017-2295-z

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5427566/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28499377
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-017-2295-z

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