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The increasing impact of length of stay “outliers” on length of stay at an urban academic hospital

BACKGROUND: As healthcare systems strive for efficiency, hospital “length of stay outliers” have the potential to significantly impact a hospital’s overall utilization. There is a tendency to exclude such “outlier” stays in local quality improvement and data reporting due to their assumed rare occur...

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Autores principales: Hughes, Andrew H., Horrocks, David, Leung, Curtis, Richardson, Melissa B., Sheehy, Ann M., Locke, Charles F. S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8427900/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34503494
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-021-06972-6