ArticleAnnals of medicine and surgery (2012)2022
Factors affecting length of hospital stay in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients in a tertiary hospital of Nepal: A retrospective cross-sectional study.
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- Prediction of Prolonged Length of Hospital Stay in Patients with Acute Exacerbations of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: An Interpretable Machine Learning Tool.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Efficacy of inpatient pulmonary rehabilitation in elderly patients with acute exacerbation of COPD: randomised controlled trial study.Irish journal of medical science · 2026Article
- Cognitive Impairment Among Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patients of Nepal: A Cross-Sectional Study.Health science reports · 2025Article
- Etiology and epidemiology of acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Eastern Nepal: a narrative review.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2024Review
- Empowering communities: implementing a COPD self-management program in Nepal.The Lancet regional health. Southeast Asia · 2024Article
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Abstract
Background: Despite the increasing burden of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Nepal, studies analyzing the factors associated with inpatient length of hospital stay are lacking. Methods: This is a retrospective, cross-sectional hospital-based study conducted between July 2020 and July 2021 on patients admitted to the inpatient ward of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine of Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital with a primary diagnosis of acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The sample size of our study was 90. Clinical and demographic factors, blood investigation parameters, and treatment received were analyzed via univariate and multivariate analysis to find the factors associated with length of stay. Results: The mean age of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients was 68.84 ± 10.22 years, with 42.2% of males and 43.3% of current smokers. The length of hospital stay ranged from 2 to 25 days, with an average stay of 6.69 ± 4.02 days. Factors associated with length of stay are the number of comorbidities (p = 0.007), blood eosinophils at admission (p = 0.022), and use of mechanical ventilatory support (p < 0.001). Conclusions: Proper management of comorbidities and eosinophilic exacerbations as well as careful use of mechanical ventilatory support are required to further reduce the duration of hospital stay in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients.
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