Physicians' ability to predict hospital length of stay for patients admitted to the hospital from the emergency department.

Authors

Gregory Mak, State University of New York Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY
William D Grant, State University of New York Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY
James C McKenzie, Thomas Jefferson UniversityFollow
John B McCabe, State University of New York Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2012

Comments

This article has been peer reviewed. It was published in: Emergency medicine international

2012;2012:824674.

The published version is available at DOI: 10.1155/2012/824674. Copyright © Hindawi

Abstract

Accurate predictions of patient length of stay (LOS) in the hospital can effectively manage hospital resources and increase efficiency of patient care. A study was done to assess emergency medicine physicians' ability of predicting the LOS of patients who enter the hospital through the ER. Results indicate that EM physicians are relatively accurate with their pediatric patients than any other age groups. In addition, as actual hospital LOS increases, the prediction accuracy decreases. Possible reasons may be due increasing medical complications associated with increasing age and this may lead to overall longer stays. Other variables such as the admitted service of the patient are not statistically significant in predicting LOS in this study. Future studies should be done in order to determine other variables that may affect LOS predictions.

Recommended Citation

Mak, Gregory; Grant, William D; McKenzie, James C; and McCabe, John B, "Physicians' ability to predict hospital length of stay for patients admitted to the hospital from the emergency department." (2012). Department of Emergency Medicine Faculty Papers. Paper 21.
https://jdc.jefferson.edu/emfp/21

PubMed ID

22319649