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Microbiological Rapid On-Site Evaluation for Pulmonary Infectious Diseases
Published on: March 1, 2024
[Stays occasioned by patients hospitalized in internal medicine services]
B Obón Azuara1, A Martínez-Berganza Asensio, P Cía Gómez
1Unidad Docente de Patología Médica A, Hospital Clínico Universitario, Zaragoza.
Background:
Study of average stay in Department of Internal Medicine.
Methods:
Prospective descriptive study in which different clinical-epidemiological variables and their relation with average stay are analysed.
Results:
Length of stay: 13.23 +/- 11.04 days. Increase in the average stay related to age, specially between 65 and 74 years, and among 45 and 55 (p = 0.02). Longer stays among those admitted from Other Departments and Urgencies (p = 0.04), and those destined to Hospitals for Chronic Patients (p = 0.0001).
Conclusions:
Alternative formulas to the conventional hospitalization, coordination among different sanitary levels and others clinical measures would contribute to reduce this parameter.
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