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

Table 2

Predicted and actual LOS within admitting services.

	𝑁	Mean difference (actual-predicted LOS in days)*	SD (days)	95% CI
Neurology	41	3.64	±4.16	2.33–4.96
Psychiatry	32	4.42	±6.32	2.14–6.70
Surgery/trauma	81	3.31	±3.96	2.44–4.19
Medicine	275	3.93	±7.38	3.05–4.81
Total	429	3.82	±6.51	3.21–4.44

^∗𝐹=0.29, 𝑃<0.832.