There are widespread (and correct) beliefs that the writing tasks that students are asked to undertake as they move through their undergraduate and graduate years show a broadly upward progression in terms of length, complexity of resources utilized, and sophistication expected.
At the individual ICU level, Junoy [ 33] used DEA to establish an efficiency frontier across the bivariate relationship between severity adjusted survival (effectiveness or output) and length of stay (resources or input) and to compute technical efficiency of "output quality".
[ 10] The CCI has also been adapted for use with administrative data as a predictor of mortality, length of stay, resource utilization, and treatment complications [ 12].
The most responsible diagnosis is one that is responsible for the longest length of stay/greatest use of resources and may also be one that was present at admission.
Doctors are (and should be) questioned about length of stay and resource utilisation.
Between 2000 and 2008, the rate of sepsis-induced hospitalizations more than doubled, and the development of septicemia has been associated with significant increases in inpatient length of stay and resource utilization [1, 4].
First, the effect of provider access to clinically relevant OI on length of stay and resource utilization should be assessed.
POB, perforation, obstruction, bleeding ulcer; ALOS, average length of stay; RBRVS, resource-based relative value scale; DRGs, diagnosis-related groups.
Conditions most related to length of stay and resource use are likely to be preferentially recorded in these databases.
In our conservative base-case analysis of equal efficacy, equal length of stay, and resource use, linezolid had lower total medical costs compared with vancomycin and daptomycin therapy.
CDSS – clinical decision support system; CEM – clinical evidence module; CHEO Childrenen's Hospital of Eastern Ontario; CPOE – computerised physician order entry; LOS – Length of stay; RIW – resource intensity weighting The author(s) declare that they have no competing interests.
