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| Hospitalist Management Advisor |
| July 2008 |
| Patient-physician ratio affects LOS, study says |
| An ideal model for patient care is one hospitalist per patient, with the physician overseeing his or her entire hospital stay. But in reality, this model isn't so easy to achieve.
A new study, "The Impact of Fragmentation of Hospitalist Care on Length of Stay and Post-Discharge Issues," published by IPC The Hospitalist Company, Inc., states that limiting the number of primary physicians that care for a patient during a length of stay (LOS) can have tremendous benefits.
The study, presented in April at the Society of Hospital Medicine's annual meeting in San Diego, focused on patients with pneumonia and congestive heart failure (CHF) from December 2006-November 2007. |
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