Journal of Public Health and Preventive Medicine 2020;31(6):24-28

doi:10.3969/j.issn.1006-2483.2020.06.006

Distribution and Influencing Factors of Patients with Extra-long Hospital Stay from 128 Hospitals in Hubei Province

Yang WU 1 ; Chuanhua YU 1 ; Yangxu WANG 1 ; Shuang ZHANG 2 ; Zhong JIN 2 ; Rongxian MA 2

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Keywords

Inpatients; Extra-long Hospital Stay; Risk Factor; Logistic Regression

Country

China

Language

Chinese

Abstract

Objective Analyze the distribution and influencing factors of inpatients with extra-long hospital stay in Hubei Province. Methods Length of stay≥30 days was defined as the extra-long hospital stay, and logistic regression was used to determine the risk factors. Results There were 26 043 cases with extra-long hospital stay, which accounting for 2.88% of the total cases. Proportion of extra-long hospital stay was increased with age, the proportion of the group aged 65 and above was the highest (3.25%), and which were higher in males than that of females, the sex ratio was 1.58. Patients with extra-long hospital stay mainly had injury/poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (16.88%), circulatory system disease (12.72%), neoplasms (11.23%), genitourinary system diseases (8.13%), mental and behavioral disorders (6.27%), and the proportion totaled up to 52.23%. Multivariate logistic regression analysis indicated that gender, age, type of disease, surgery or not and hospital grade were the influencing factors of extra-long hospital stay. Conclusions There are differences in the distribution of extra-long hospital stay in different individuals, diseases and medical treatment, targeted measures should be taken to shorten the length of stay.