Accurate prediction of the Length of Stay (LoS) and mortality in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is crucial for effective hospital management, and it can assist clinicians for real-time demand capacity ...
This paper proposes a novel one-dimensional (1D) multi-scale convolutional neural network architecture, namely 1D-MSNet, to predict inpatients' LoS and mortality in ICU. First, a 1D multi-scale convol...
On the MIMIC-IV v1.0 benchmark dataset, the proposed approach achieves the optimum R-Square and RMSE values of 0.57 and 3.61 for the LoS prediction, and the highest test accuracy of 97.73% for the mor...
The proposed approach presents a superior performance in comparison with other state-of-the-art, and it can effectively perform the LoS and mortality prediction tasks....
Hypokalaemia and hyperkalaemia ('dyskalaemia') are commonly seen in patients requiring emergency hospital admission. The adverse effect of dyskalaemia on mortality is well described but there are few ...
Systematic review and meta-analysis....
A structured search of MEDLINE, PubMed and SCOPUS databases to 19 March 2021....
Observational cohort studies defining exposure of interest as serum potassium levels (at admission or within the first 72 hours) and with outcome of interest as length of hospital stay. Studies had to...
We identified 39 articles published to March 2021 that met the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Study selection, data extraction and quality assessment were carried out by two reviewers working indep...
Five studies were included in the meta-analysis. Compared with the reference group (3.5-5.0 mmol/L), the pooled raw differences of medians were 4.45 (95% CI 2.71 to 6.91), 1.99 (95% CI 0.03 to 3.94), ...
Hospital length of stay follows a U-shaped distribution, with duration of admission being twofold greater at the extremes of the potassium range....
COVID-19 has adversely affected global healthcare infrastructure since 2019. Currently, there are no large-scale published reports on the efficacy of combination therapy of dexamethasone, remdesivir, ...
Is the combination therapy of dexamethasone, remdesivir, and tocilizumab superior to other treatments on hospitalized COVID-19 patients?...
This is a retrospective, comparative effectiveness study....
Single-center study PARTICIPANTS/INTERVENTIONS: We analyzed different inpatient COVID-19 treatment options available in the United States and their impact on hospital length of stay (LOS) and mortalit...
The endpoints of the study are hospital discharges and death during hospitalization....
1233 COVID-19 patients were admitted from 2020 to 2021. No treatment combinations showed a statistically significant decrease in hospital LOS in mild COVID-19 patients (p = 0.186). In moderate patient...
Our findings suggest that three-drug combination may decrease LOS in severe COVID-19 patients when compared to two-drug therapy. However, the trend was not supported by statistical analysis. Remdesivi...
Microtia can have deleterious impacts on the functional, psychological, and aesthetic outcomes of affected young children. Reconstructive procedures can alleviate these negative outcomes and significa...
Incident delirium in older patients is associated with prolonged hospitalization and mortality. A recent study suggested an association between emergency department (ED) length of stay (LOS), time in ...
We performed this retrospective cohort study at a single, urban, academic medical center. All data were extracted from the electronic health record. We included patients aged ≥65 years presenting to t...
We studied 5,886 patients ≥65 years of age; median age was 77 (69-83) years; 3,031 (52%) were female, and 1,361 (23%) reported a history of dementia. Overall, 1,408 (24%) patients experienced incident...
In this single-center study, ED length of stay was associated with incident delirium in older adults, while non-clinical patient moves and ED hallway time in the ED were not. Health systems should sys...
Postpartum Length of hospital stay (PLOHS) is an essential indicator of the quality of maternal and perinatal healthcare services. Identifying the factors associated with PLOHS will inform targeted in...
We used the Ibadan Pregnancy Cohort Study (IbPCS) data, and examined the 1057 women who had information on PLOHS the mode of delivery [spontaneous vagina delivery (SVD) or caesarean section (C/S)]. Th...
The mean maternal age was (30.0 ± 5.2) years. Overall, the mean PLOHS for the study population was 2.6 (95% CI: 2.4-2.7) days. The average PLOHS for women who had vaginal deliveries was 1.7 (95%CI: 1....
The prolonged postpartum length of hospital stay was common among our study participants occurring in about a third of the women irrespective of the mode of delivery. Maternal income, advanced materna...
Hospital length of stay (HLOS) after traumatic brain injury (TBI) is an important metric of injury severity, resource utilization, and access to post-acute care services. Risk factors for protracted H...
Data regarding adult inpatients admitted to a single U.S. level 1 trauma center with a diagnosis of acute TBI between August 1, 2019, and April 1, 2022, were extracted from the electronic health recor...
In 1638 patients, the median HLOS was 3 days (interquartile range [IQR]: 2-8 days). XHLOS threshold was >70 days (N = 18; range: 72-146 days). XHLOS was associated with younger age (XHLOS/non-XHLOS: 5...
XHLOS patients were more likely to have severe injuries, low SES, and Medicaid. XHLOS is associated with in-hospital mortality and need for post-acute placement. XHLOS patients often demonstrated medi...
Laboratory studies are a useful tool for both diagnosis and prognosis of pathologies, especially in the emergency room. In the article they seek to establish an association between laboratory studies ...
The length of hospital stay (LOS) is a proxy of asthma exacerbation severity and healthcare cost. The study aims to estimate the effect of ambient air pollution on pediatric asthma LOS in the Bronx, N...
A total of 1,920 children admitted to the hospital in Bronx, NY due to asthma during 2017-2019 period were included in the study. Demographic and clinical parameters were obtained from medical records...
The mean LOS varied by age, sex, weight status, influenza vaccination status, respiratory viral panel (RVP) results, asthma controller use, and asthma classification. After controlling for these facto...
Ambient particulate and ozone pollution is associated with lengthier hospital stays for pediatric asthma, potentially indicating more severe asthma exacerbations....
Geriatric patients who fall are among the most common mechanisms of injury presenting to trauma centers. We sought to quantify the impact of various comorbidities on length of stay (LOS) in these pati...
