Objective Patients typically remain hospitalized for several days after transsphenoidal
surgery for pituitary adenoma resection for reasons including pain control, serial …

Background Following childbirth, women need to stay sufficiently long in health facilities to
receive adequate care. Little is known about length of stay following childbirth in low-and …

BACKGROUND: The trends in hospitalization rates and risk factors for severe bronchiolitis
have not been recently described, especially after the routine implementation of prophylaxis …

Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and Six Sigma (SS) have largely proved their
reliability in the healthcare context. The former focuses on the assessment of health …

Background To investigate whether factors can be identified that significantly affect hospital
length of stay from those available in an electronic patient record system, using primary total …

Objectives: This study examined selected effects of the proper use of nonparametric
inferential statistical methods for analysis of nonnormally distributed data, as exemplified by …

Diabetes is a life-altering medical condition that affects millions of people and results in
many hospitalizations per year. Consequently, predicting the length of stay of in-hospital …

Objectives To determine the effect of nurse‐implemented transitional care (TC) on
readmission and mortality rates in Chinese individuals with chronic heart failure (CHF) in …

Background and Purpose: While providing medical services, hospitals generate many data
about patients. Such medical data could contribute to better treatments once their …

Background To our knowledge, there have been no previously published reports
characterizing lower-extremity amputations in Canada. The objective of this study was to …