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Review
. 1999 Nov:Spec No:40-54.
doi: 10.1097/00001786-199911000-00006.

Reducing hospital inpatient lengths of stay

M E Murphy  1 , C M Noetscher
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Reducing hospital inpatient lengths of stay

M E Murphy et al. J Nurs Care Qual. 1999 Nov.

Abstract

This article describes the importance of hospital length of stay as an indicator of health care efficiency and provides guidance concerning the development of data for length of stay reduction. It identifies variables involved in length of stay evaluation including the mean stay, median stay, and length of stay standard deviation. It describes how consistent length of stay data can be generated and analyzed for local populations and benchmark communities.

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