Necessary hospitalizations, unnecessarily long stays: The problem of timely discharge

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
² Department of Medicine, Section of Hospital Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Editorial

Yoseob Joseph Hwang et al. J Hosp Med. 2023 Apr.

. 2023 Apr;18(4):369-370.

doi: 10.1002/jhm.13083. Epub 2023 Mar 19.

¹ Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
² Department of Medicine, Section of Hospital Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

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Characterizing patients hospitalized without an acute care indication: A retrospective cohort study.
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