作者: Vincent Liu , Patricia Kipnis , Michael K. Gould , Gabriel J. Escobar
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0B013E3181E359F3
关键词: Outcome assessment 、 Comorbidity 、 Emergency medicine 、 Inpatient care 、 Operations management 、 Severity of illness 、 Linear model 、 Resource utilization 、 MEDLINE 、 Retrospective cohort study 、 Medicine 、 Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
摘要: Background:Length of stay (LOS) is a common measure hospital resource utilization. Most methods for risk-adjusting LOS are limited by the use only administrative data. Recent studies suggest that adding automated clinical data to these models improves performance.Objectives:To evaluate uti