SUMMARY This study has been made on the patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in Ataturk Chest Disease Hospital in order to put forth the factors pro- longing the length of stay, decreasing the discharge time, preventing the nonessential staying and contributing to servicing more patients with the existing available condi- tions of the hospital. During the research, the files, serv- ice protocol books and outlet summaries of 113 patients staying in Non Tuberculosis (TB) clinics between 1-31 January 2001 were examined. It was researched that how the variables such as age, staying service, sex, domicile, staying status, educational level, number of COPD diag- nosis had before, additional diseases, COPD age, com- plication and reasons for complication, effected the length of stay. According to the results of the research, there are meaningful relations between the average length of stay and educational level, number of COPD diagnosis, additional diseases, COPD age, existence of complication and reasons for complication. On the other hand, staying service, age of the patient, sex, domicile, staying status are not related meaningfully with the aver- age length of stay statistically.
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