Physicians’ Ability to Predict Hospital Length of Stay for Patients Admitted to the Hospital from the Emergency Department

Table 1

Patient data by the separate age groups with the mean, SD, and 95% CI.

	𝑁	Mean difference (actual-predicted LOS in days)*	SD (days)	95% CI
Pediatrics (<18)	47	1.70	±1.76	1.18–2.22
Adult (18–65)	262	3.62	±5.22	2.98–4.25
Elderly (>65)	122	5.35	±9.74	3.61–7.10
Total	431	3.90	±6.69	3.27–4.53

^∗𝐹=5.77, 𝑃<0.003.