Articles Tagged With: length
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More Recovery Time Can Aid Patients After Hip Surgery
Research suggests some hip fracture surgery patients experience better outcomes after the procedure with a longer post-acute stay. Recovery also is easier when these patients do not have to engage in intensive physical therapy initiated immediately after surgery.
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Project to Improve Throughput Cut Length of Stay, Helped Bottom Line
A quality improvement project to shorten lengths of stay and improve throughput from the ED at Saint Francis Medical Center in Hartford, CT, decreased the length of stay by more than half a day from November 2015 through May 2016.