Among selected low-risk Medicare patients who underwent an elective percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI; procedures such as balloon angioplasty or stent placement used to open narrowed coronary arteries), same-day discharge was rarely implemented, but was not associated with an increased risk of being rehospitalized or having a higher risk of death at 2 days or at 30 days, than patients who remained in the hospital overnight.

Hospital patients admitted with malnutrition or who don't eat for several days are at greater risk of a prolonged hospital stay.

Advanced imaging techniques such as computed tomography (CT) scans and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) might shorten the length of a person's hospital stay and decrease the high costs associated with hospitalization if used early

Patients cared for by a hospital-based physician -- a hospitalist -- may have a shorter length of stay than those who are not, a U.S. study found. Hospitalists provide care for medical inpatients and staff medical teaching rounds in an academic medical center, said Dr. William N.

By Cynthia T. Pegram, The News & Advance, Lynchburg, Va. Oct. 13--The planned opening of long-term, acute-care "hospital within a hospital" at Virginia Baptist Hospital will be delayed about a month. "We're shooting for Nov.