Reasons for prolonged length of stay in the epilepsy monitoring unit
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- 作者：Brian D. Moseley ; MDa ; briandmoseley@gmail.com" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author ; Sandra Dewar ; RN MSb ; SDewar@mednet.ucla.edu" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author ; Zulfi Haneef ; MDc ; haneef@bcm.edu" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author ; Dawn Eliashiv ; MDb ; DEliashiv@mednet.ucla.edu" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author ; John M. Stern ; MDb ; JStern@ucla.edu" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author
- 关键词：Epilepsy monitoring ; Length of stay ; Resource allocation ; EMU ; Prolonged hospitalization
- 刊名：Epilepsy Research
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：November 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：127
- 期：Complete
- 页码：175-178
- 全文大小：277 K
文摘
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Prolonged length of stay (LOS) >7 days occurred in 38.8% of our EMU admissions.
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LOS was significantly longer for patients with epileptic versus non-epileptic seizures.
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LOS was longer for patients with more prolonged durations of epilepsy/spells.
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A third of prolonged admissions were secondary to prolonged time to first seizure.
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Other reasons included seizure clusters (6.9%) and status epilepticus (1.6%).