Does scoring patient complexity using COMPRI predict the length of hospital stay? A multicentre case–control study in Japan

• Published in: BMJ open Vol. 12; no. 4; p. e051891
• Main Authors: Yokokawa, Daiki, Shikino, Kiyoshi, Kishi, Yasuhiro, Ban, Toshiaki, Miyahara, Shigeyoshi, Ohira, Yoshiyuki, Yanagita, Yasutaka, Yamauchi, Yosuke, Hayashi, Yasushi, Ishizuka, Kosuke, Hirose, Yuta, Tsukamoto, Tomoko, Noda, Kazutaka, Uehara, Takanori, Ikusaka, Masatomi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England British Medical Journal Publishing Group 21.04.2022; BMJ Publishing Group LTD; BMJ Publishing Group
• Series: Original research
• Subjects: Age; Aged; Case-Control Studies; Emergency medical care; general medicine (see internal medicine); General practice / Family practice; Hospitalization; Hospitals; Humans; Illnesses; Internal medicine; Japan; Length of Stay; Medical history; Medicine; Older people; Patient Discharge; Patients; Physicians; primary care; Japan; Netherlands; Europe; internal medicine; primary care; general medicine (see internal medicine)

ObjectiveTo clarify the factors associated with prolonged hospital stays, focusing on the COMplexity PRediction Instrument (COMPRI) score’s accuracy in predicting the length of stay of newly hospitalised patients in general internal medicine wards.DesignA case–control study.SettingThree general inte...