Shorter hospital stays don’t mean worse care: study
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – U.S. Veterans Affairs hospitals were able to reduce their patients’ length of stay without increasing the number of people who needed to be readmitted later on, according to a new study. “As hospitals became more efficient there was this growing concern that we were discharging patients – as some would say – sicker and quicker,” said the study’s lead author Dr. Peter Kaboli. “In fact, we found just the opposite,” said Kaboli, who works at the Iowa City VA Health Care System. …