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Factors associated with the length of stay in emergency departments in Southern-Ethiopia
OBJECTIVES: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 399 patients at Hawassa University Comprehensive Specialized Hospital from February 15 to March 30/2018 to assess the length of stay (LOS) and its associated factors in emergency departments (EDs). RESULT: About 91.5% patients were stayed in th...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6482488/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31023367 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4271-7 |
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author | Alemu, Getahun H/meskel Negari, Keneni Gutema Rodamo, Kaleb Mayisso Hirigo, Agete Tadewos |
author_facet | Alemu, Getahun H/meskel Negari, Keneni Gutema Rodamo, Kaleb Mayisso Hirigo, Agete Tadewos |
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description | OBJECTIVES: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 399 patients at Hawassa University Comprehensive Specialized Hospital from February 15 to March 30/2018 to assess the length of stay (LOS) and its associated factors in emergency departments (EDs). RESULT: About 91.5% patients were stayed in the EDs for greater than 24 h in different reasons. Inadequacy of beds in inpatient wards, overcrowding, absence of different laboratory test profiles and delay in radiological services were showed a significant differences in LOS greater than 24 h when compared to LOS ≤ 24 h in EDs (p < 0.05 for all). In addition, admission beds [adjusted odds ratio: 8.7 (95% CI 3.2–23.2)]; overcrowding [adjusted odds ratio: 3.6 (95% CI 1.6–8.3)]; laboratory test profiles [adjusted odds ratio: 5.1 (95% CI 1.9–14.1)], and radiology services [adjusted odds ratio: 3.7 (95% CI 1.5–9.2)] were significantly and positively associated with LOS greater than 24 h in EDs. Further, a significant proportion of patients were stayed for unnecessary extended length of time in EDs due to different factors. Therefore, the commitment of organization is crucial to provide sufficient number of admission beds, to scale-up laboratory test profiles and to decrease radiology service turn-around time in order to improve LOS in EDs. |
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spelling | pubmed-64824882019-05-02 Factors associated with the length of stay in emergency departments in Southern-Ethiopia Alemu, Getahun H/meskel Negari, Keneni Gutema Rodamo, Kaleb Mayisso Hirigo, Agete Tadewos BMC Res Notes Research Note OBJECTIVES: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 399 patients at Hawassa University Comprehensive Specialized Hospital from February 15 to March 30/2018 to assess the length of stay (LOS) and its associated factors in emergency departments (EDs). RESULT: About 91.5% patients were stayed in the EDs for greater than 24 h in different reasons. Inadequacy of beds in inpatient wards, overcrowding, absence of different laboratory test profiles and delay in radiological services were showed a significant differences in LOS greater than 24 h when compared to LOS ≤ 24 h in EDs (p < 0.05 for all). In addition, admission beds [adjusted odds ratio: 8.7 (95% CI 3.2–23.2)]; overcrowding [adjusted odds ratio: 3.6 (95% CI 1.6–8.3)]; laboratory test profiles [adjusted odds ratio: 5.1 (95% CI 1.9–14.1)], and radiology services [adjusted odds ratio: 3.7 (95% CI 1.5–9.2)] were significantly and positively associated with LOS greater than 24 h in EDs. Further, a significant proportion of patients were stayed for unnecessary extended length of time in EDs due to different factors. Therefore, the commitment of organization is crucial to provide sufficient number of admission beds, to scale-up laboratory test profiles and to decrease radiology service turn-around time in order to improve LOS in EDs. BioMed Central 2019-04-25 /pmc/articles/PMC6482488/ /pubmed/31023367 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4271-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Note Alemu, Getahun H/meskel Negari, Keneni Gutema Rodamo, Kaleb Mayisso Hirigo, Agete Tadewos Factors associated with the length of stay in emergency departments in Southern-Ethiopia |
title | Factors associated with the length of stay in emergency departments in Southern-Ethiopia |
title_full | Factors associated with the length of stay in emergency departments in Southern-Ethiopia |
title_fullStr | Factors associated with the length of stay in emergency departments in Southern-Ethiopia |
title_full_unstemmed | Factors associated with the length of stay in emergency departments in Southern-Ethiopia |
title_short | Factors associated with the length of stay in emergency departments in Southern-Ethiopia |
title_sort | factors associated with the length of stay in emergency departments in southern-ethiopia |
topic | Research Note |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6482488/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31023367 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4271-7 |
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