Addressing hospital length of stay outlier patients: A community wide approach

Lagoe, Ronald and Pernisi, Louise and Luziani, Mary and Littau, Shelly (2014) Addressing hospital length of stay outlier patients: A community wide approach. Advances in Bioscience and Biotechnology, 05 (03). pp. 188-196. ISSN 2156-8456

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Abstract

Length of stay outlier patients, who remain in hospitals for extended periods of time, is an important challenge to the improvement of health care efficiency. This study identified outlier patients and programs to address them in the metropolitan area of Syracuse, New York. It demonstrated that, during 2013, outlier patients accounted for 2.4 percent of adult medicine discharges and an excess average daily census of 53.3 patients in the Syracuse hospitals. During 2013, outlier patients accounted for 4.3 percent of adult surgery discharges and an excess average daily census of 44.1 patients. In two studies, the Syracuse hospitals identified the need for multiple intravenous therapy, extensive wound care, and total parenteral nutrition in the community, as major causes of outlier stays in hospitals. Each of the hospitals has developed a program with a long term care facility to address these needs. Efforts to address outlier lengths of stay are also focusing on Potentially Preventable Complications in Syracuse. The mean length of stay for inpatients with post admissions complications was almost three times the stay for the medical/surgical population during 2013.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: Science Global Plos > Biological Science
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Date Deposited: 09 Mar 2023 11:07
Last Modified: 19 Sep 2023 07:54
URI: http://ebooks.manu2sent.com/id/eprint/295

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