Shorter stay urology: the way forward.
A large part of the total cost of the treatment of surgical patients in hospitals is from the duration of hospitalization. Urology is well suited for short-stay surgery, and a large proportion of our work is elective in nature. We audited our in-patients over a 6-month period and found that 77% of our patients stayed for 3 days or fewer. The advantages of having elective 5-day beds in maintaining our throughput without requiring an increase in the total number of beds is discussed.
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Department of Urology, St James's University Hospital, Leeds.
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Whelan
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D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D006742:Hospital Bed Capacity; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay / Q000191:economics; D008485:Medical Audit; D010343:Patient Admission; D010351:Patient Discharge; D012606:Scotland; D014573:Urology Department, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*