As a result, we cannot determine whether the intervention influenced antibiotic utilization, length of hospital stay, mortality, or antibiotic resistance patterns.
An acute coronary syndrome (ACS) emergency treatment strategies (ACSETS) critical care pathway (CCP), embedding guideline-based treatment, was evaluated in a 4-hospital system in Buffalo, NY, for its impact on ACS drug utilization, length of stay, and mortality.
The cohorts were compared for the following measures of hospital resource utilization: length of stay, number of procedures, and mean total cost.
By stepwise multiple linear regression, gender, age, location of spinal injury, neurological deficit, surgical intervention and the six combined injuries were identified significantly as associated factors of the two kinds of medical utilization, length of stay (LOS) and direct medical cost.
Changes in ICU utilization (length of stay, frequency of mechanical ventilation use), nursing workload assessed byTISS-28 score, as well as inappropriate bed use, accessibility of the ICU (number of referrals), and clinical outcome indicators (readmission and mortality rates) were measured.
We collected data on age, sex, Model for End Stage Liver Disease (MELD) score (bilirubin, creatinine and PT/INR) at diagnosis, peritoneal white blood cell count and differential, blood and peritoneal culture data, dose of ceftriaxone, additional antibiotics, duration of antibiotic therapy, creatinine trends, intensive care utilization, length of hospital stay and mortality.
Additional measures of resource utilization included length of stay (LOS) and ED visit outcome.
Descriptive statistics were used to compare ED resource utilization (ED length of stay, discharge status) by SCS and MAIS level.
To assess the impact of a new postanesthesia care unit (PACU) on intensive care unit (ICU) utilization, hospital length of stay, and complications following major noncardiac surgery.
Another limitation was that we were not able to reliably identify procedures completed during the visit, which could have been related to proxies of resource utilization, including length of stay.
It also leads to a greater extent of health care utilization (costs, length of hospital stay, and number of physician visits) [3].
