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ArticleCureus2019

Factors Affecting Length of Stay for Observation Patients.

Rachel S Dada, Anupam A Sule

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Article in Cureus, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Rachel S DadaInternal Medicine, St. Joseph Mercy Oakland Hospital, Pontiac, USA.
Anupam A SuleInternal Medicine, St. Joseph Mercy Oakland Hospital, Pontiac, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Objectives The objective of this study was to determine whether the addition of a case manager and a physician advisor to the observation unit would decrease the length of stay (LOS) of observation patients. Study design This retrospective, observational study for observation patients was conducted in 2017. Methods At a tertiary-care, medium-sized, urban, community hospital, the LOS for all observation patients in 2017 (2, 981 clinical decision unit [CDU] patients and 1,248 non-cohort patients) was studied. Interventions studied were the addition of unit-based case manager and physician advisor to observation patient treatment teams. Results Patients assigned to the CDU had a shorter LOS than scattered patients,

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case managementclinical decision unitlength of stay (los)observation unitoutcomes researchphysician advisor

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PMID31275771
PMCPMC6592838

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