What are the risk factors for prolonged length of stay after major elective surgery?
Improving intraoperative care and minimizing postoperative complications are key to reducing prolonged length of stay and costs after major elective surgery.
Prolonged LOS is associated with preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative factors. Although preoperative factors were independently associated with a prolonged LOS, the factors generating the highest risks for a prolonged LOS were the intraoperative process of care and postoperative adverse events. To reduce costs, efforts should be made to improve the intraoperative process of care and to minimize postoperative complications.
Collins et al. (Sun,) studied this question.
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