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KMID : 0385920090200010010
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Journal of the Korean Society of Emergency Medicine
2009 Volume.20 No. 1 p.10 ~ p.19
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Effect of Issuing of Hospitalization Sheets by Emergency Department on Shortening Length of Stay
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Moon Seok-Whan
Choi Se-Min
Park Kyu-Nam
Choi Kyung-Ho
Oh Young-Min
Oh Joo-Suk
Jeong Si-Kyoung
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Abstract
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Purpose: The purpose of the study is to find whether there is any effect on shortening the length of stay of long term patients due to issuing of hospitalization sheets by emergency department.
Methods: For the investigation, 27,948 patients who resided in hospitals over 6 hours from 2006 to 2007 were
chosen as the subjects. The main materials for the investigation were various time variables according to the medical
records. For the verification of each factor, Student’s t-test and Pearson’ correlation coefficient were used.
Results: There was statistically significant difference in regard to length of stay (p<0.01). The departments related to internal medicine showed that they required longer times in every aspect compared to those of non-internal medicine.
There were statistically significant differences (p<0.01) in regard to the time of patients’ length of stay and the time of
issuing sheets for hospitalization according to the numbers of related department. However, there was no meaningful
difference in regard to the waiting time for hospitalization.
Conclusion: In conclusion, in the cases of long term patients who stayed over 6 hours in 2007 when the random
sheets for hospitalization were issued by emergency department, the length of stay was significantly reduced. It
was found that the time was more increased in the departments of internal medicine than the departments of noninternal
medicine and when the related sub departments increased.
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KEYWORD
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Emergency medicine, Length of stay, Hospitalization
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