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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Patient Length of Stay"”.
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PATIENT LENGTH OF STAY: PREDICTIVE VARIABILITY AMONG FORENSIC AND CIVIL PSYCHIATRIC UNITS AND POPULATIONS
Patient length of stay (LOS) in psychiatric inpatient services has become one of the most popular but least understood measures of treatment efficiency and total cost of care. The initiative to decrease LOS in an effort to reduce total treatment costs will ultimately be more costly, unless LOS …
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Analyzing the impact of delays for patient transfers from the ICU to general care units
Patients at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) face significant non-clinical transfer delays out of adult intensive care units (ICUs) and into general care units. In each of the years 2010 through to 2013, approximately 28% of MGH ICU patients experienced a transfer delay of over 12 hours. …
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Routine Post-Procedure Recovery (RPPR) patients at Massachusetts General Hospital
This project offers improved strategies for managing the flow of surgical patients who are categorized as Routine Post-Procedure Recovery (RPPR) in Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Strategies were developed by analyzing the trade-offs in resource utilization of alternative recovery pathways. …
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Adverse drug reactions in hospital inpatients
… This thesis examined the incidence and nature of adverse drug reactions following admission to hospital. An initial pilot study was conducted to develop methodology, which was then utilised in a study of 3695 patients. Approximately 15% of patients experienced an ADR following admission, of …
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Health Literacy and Psychiatric Hospital Readmissions
This study examined the health literacy of adult patients diagnosed with bipolar disorder, investigated the relationship between health literacy and psychiatric hospital readmissions, identified differences in readmission rates between health literacy groups, and explored the best predictors of …
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Data mining and visualization : real time predictions and pattern discovery in hospital emergency rooms and immigration data
Data mining is a versatile and expanding field of study. We show the applications and uses of a variety of techniques in two very different realms: Emergency department (ED) length of stay prediction and visual analytics. For the ED, we investigate three data mining techniques to predict a …
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Co-Surgeons in Breast Reconstructive Microsurgery: What Do They Bring to the Table?
… procedures, possibly leading to improved patient and surgical outcomes. We sought to evaluate the role of the co-surgery team and its development in free flap breast reconstruction. METHODS: A retrospective review of free-flap breast reconstruction by two surgeons from 2011-2016 was …
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Predicting medicine inpatient discharges at Massachusetts General Hospital
At Massachusetts General Hospital, inpatients often experience significant non-clinical delays in patient care, and frequently wait in the Emergency Department or in inpatient-floor hallways before receiving bed assignments. Such delays result in overcrowding in the Emergency Department, heightened …
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Advancing Emergency Department Efficiency, Infectious Disease Management at Mass Gatherings, and Self-Efficacy Through Data Science and Dynamic Modeling
… essays, each contributing to a distinct domain of research, and utilizes industrial and systems engineering approaches to provide data-driven insights and recommend solutions. The first essay used data analytics and regression analysis to understand how patient length of stay (LOS) in EDs could …
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Effects of nursing work loads on patients safety in the selected public hospitals in Vhembe District of Limpopo Province, South Africa
Background: The heavy workload of hospital nurses is a major problem globally. Nurses are experiencing higher workloads than ever before due to four main reasons, increased demand for nurses, inadequate appointment of new nurses, reduced staffing and increased overtime and reduction in patient …
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Throughput and Nurses' Workloads: Influences on Nurse and Patient Outcomes
Patient turnover, or throughput, through nursing units can significantly impact the workloads of nurses. However, very few staffing measures account for patient throughput, thus underestimating nurses' workloads. Research has shown that when nurse staffing is more favorable, patient and nurse …
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Creating A Culture of Mobility: A Quality Improvement Project
… title:</strong> Creating A Culture of Patient Mobility in An Acute Care Setting.</p> <p><strong>Unit:</strong> Medical Surgical unit. </p> <p><strong>Author:</strong> Vincent Samuel RN, BSN</p> <p><strong>Institution:</strong> University of San Francisco; Kaiser Permanente Nurse …