Journal article
Declining Length of Stay for Patients Hospitalized with AMI: Impact on Mortality and Readmissions
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Length of hospital stay after acute myocardial infarction decreased significantly in the 1980s and 1990s. Whether length of stay has continued to decrease during the 2000s, and the impact of decreasing length of stay on rehospitalization and mortality, is unclear. We describe decade-long (1995-2005) trends in length of stay after acute myocardial infarction, and examine whether declining length of stay has impacted early …
Authors
Saczynski JS; Lessard D; Spencer FA; Gurwitz JH; Gore JM; Yarzebski J; Goldberg RJ
Journal
The American Journal of Medicine, Vol. 123, No. 11, pp. 1007–1015
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
11 2010
DOI
10.1016/j.amjmed.2010.05.018
ISSN
0002-9343