Erschienen in:
16.07.2019 | Capsule Commentary
Capsule Commentary on van Walraven’s “The influence of inpatient physician continuity on hospital discharge”
verfasst von:
David G. Paje, MD, MPH
Erschienen in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Ausgabe 9/2019
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Excerpt
As hospitals strive to reduce patients’ length of stay, it is necessary to identify factors that improve clinical efficiency and facilitate discharge. In this retrospective study, Carl van Walraven
1 used patient-level data from admissions to the medical service of a large teaching hospital to determine if continuity of inpatient attending physician is associated with the probability that a patient will be discharged from the hospital on a given day. After adjusting for various confounders, he found that the likelihood of discharge increased as patients were followed by the same attending physician for more consecutive days. …