Factors Influencing the Patients’ Length of Stay in a Tertiary Hospital Emergency Department

Abstract

The patients’ length of stay in the ED effect on many things, such as to the cost of treatment, patient safety, quality of care and patient satisfaction. Because of these reasons, managing emergency services of patients remain at the standard of service specified time, which is 8 hours, becomes important. The purpose of this study was to analyze the factors that affect Length Of Stay patient in the IGD RSHS. The analysis by multiple linear regression method found that age, gender, the number of diagnostic examinations, the number of consultation and triage category affect significantly (p <0.05) on LOS. Number of diagnostic examinations is the most influential factor.