| Lagtime in psychosomatic medicine consultations for cognitive-disorder patients: association with length of stay. | |
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PMID: 19996234 Owner: NLM Status: In-Process |
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BACKGROUND: Utilization studies in inpatient psychosomatic medicine have focused on patterns of consultation requests, timing of consultation requests relative to date of hospital admission, and the association between time to initial psychiatric consultation and length of stay. OBJECTIVE: The authors studied the association of time to initial psychosomatic medicine consultation and length of stay for inpatients with cognitive disorders. METHOD: The authors reviewed 157 charts, analyzing effects of age, gender, days from admission until consultation (REFLAG), and length of stay (LOS). Two values were computed: referral lag divided by LOS (REFLAG/LOS) and log(REFLAG)/log(LOS). RESULTS: Mean REFLAG was 8.13; mean LOS was 18.6 days; mean REFLAG/LOS was 0.466; and mean log(REFLAG)/log (LOS) was 0.596. REFLAG and log (REFLAG)/log(LOS) correlated significantly with LOS. CONCLUSION: REFLAG is significantly associated with increased LOS. Referring services may need to consider earlier consultation requests. |
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James A Bourgeois; Jacob A Wegelin |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: Psychosomatics Volume: 50 ISSN: 1545-7206 ISO Abbreviation: Psychosomatics Publication Date: 2009 Nov-Dec |
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Created Date: 2009-12-09 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0376506 Medline TA: Psychosomatics Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 622-5 Citation Subset: IM |
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Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Division of Biostatistics, University of California, Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA. james.bourgeois@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu |
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