Sentence examples for excess days from inspiring English sources
Under the Belgian system each patient presentation is attributed a fixed number of hospital days and this is paid for prospectively at a standard rate per day with a lower payment given for any excess days; therefore much of the cost of longer stays is borne by the treating hospital [ 16].
The hospitals with "excess days" with respect to the norm are financially penalized, while the others are financially rewarded.
For this reason it is likely that at least some of the excess days and costs seen in mucormycosis group were incurred prior to the onset of mucormycosis.
The remaining patients (N = 14,522; 58%) contributed to 146,680 excess days with a median of 4.7 days and a mean of 10.1 days.
The 6,281 admissions identified as contributing markedly to excess length of stay accounted for 85% (124,803 days) of the excess days.
The costs of caregiving due to the excess days of hospitalization were $927 and $273 in the survivor and non-survivor groups, respectively.
CBS's production was in the pre-excess days, where screens were not shrunk for updates and there were no electronic first-down lines or instant polls.
Additional outcomes included IDR team member satisfaction and participation, discussion time, and standard quality metrics of length of stay, and 30-day readmission rate, and excess bed days of care.
Similarly, conventional quality measures of length of stay, excess bed days of care,and 30-day readmissions were unaffected by the intervention, consistent with prior studies that found these metrics insensitive to changes in interdisciplinary care processes [ 21].
Excess bed days of care represent the proportion of hospital bed days during which patients did not meet criteria for acute care.
The primary outcome was note completion rates by charge nurses; IDR team member satisfaction and participation, discussion time and balancing metrics (i.e., excess bed days of care, length of stay, and 30-day readmissions) were also assessed.
