Journal article
Differences in length of stay for Hospital in the Home patients: comparing simple clinical coding with medical record review
LL Ioannides-Demos, R Addicott, NM Santamaria, L Clayton, M McKenzie, CK Fairley
INTERNAL MEDICINE JOURNAL | BLACKWELL SCIENCE ASIA | Published : 2001
Abstract
AIM: To determine whether the apparently longer length of stay (LOS) reported for patients with cellulitis managed in Hospital in the Home (HITH) compared with those managed as inpatients was correct. METHODS: Data, including LOS, from the Victorian In-patient Minimum Database (VIMD) of all patients with cellulitis managed between July 1998 and June 1999 at a large metropolitan teaching hospital were analysed and compared with a retrospective medical record review of the same patients. RESULTS: In the VIMD data, there were 266 episodes of cellulitis during the study period. However, the medical record review found that six episodes were not separate, but rather a continuation of treatment fo..
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