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Prolonged patients’ In-Hospital Waiting Period after discharge eligibility is associated with increased risk of infection, morbidity and mortality: a retrospective cohort analysis

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Health Services Research, June 2015
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Title
Prolonged patients’ In-Hospital Waiting Period after discharge eligibility is associated with increased risk of infection, morbidity and mortality: a retrospective cohort analysis
Published in
BMC Health Services Research, June 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12913-015-0929-6
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Maya Rosman, Orna Rachminov, Omer Segal, Gad Segal

Abstract

Prolonged, inappropriate hospital stay after patients' eligibility for discharge from internal medicine departments is a world-wide health-care systems' problem. Nevertheless, the extent to which such surplus hospital stays are associated with infectious complications, their time frame of appearance and their long-term implications was not previously addressed. We conducted a retrospective cohort analysis of patients experiencing an In-hospital Waiting Period (IHWP) after discharge eligibility in a single, tertiary hospital. We screened the records of 245 patients out of which 104 patients fulfilled our inclusion criteria. The mean length of IHWP was 15.7 ± 4.79 day during which 9(8.7 %) patients died. The study primary composite end-point, in-hospital mortality or hospital acquired infection (pneumonia, UTI or sepsis) occurred in 32(31 %) patients. The most hazardous time was during the first 3 IHWP days: 63.7 % of patients experienced a complication and 44 % of the total complications occurred during this period. The occurrence of any complication during IHWP was associated, with statistical significance, with increased risk of mortality during the first year after IHWP initiation (HR = 6.02, p = 0.014). Prolongation of hospital stay after patients are deemed to be discharged from internal medicine departments is associated with increased morbidity and mortality, mainly during the first surplus days of in-hospital stay. Efforts should be made to shorten such hospital stays as much as possible.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 118 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 18 15%
Student > Bachelor 17 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 14 12%
Researcher 12 10%
Student > Postgraduate 10 8%
Other 14 12%
Unknown 34 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 38 32%
Nursing and Health Professions 23 19%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 5%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 3%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 3 3%
Other 7 6%
Unknown 39 33%
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