Research Article

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

Table 3

Top 10% shortest and longest length of stay diagnosis.

Top 10% shortest LOS diagnosisCountTop 10% longest LOS diagnosisCount

Abnormal involuntary movement1Bipolar disorder1
Anal fissure1Cellulitis (foot)1
Anomalies (spleen)1Cerebral artery infarction1
Cellulitis (buttocks)1Chest pain1
Cellulitis (face)1Congestive heart failure1
Cerebral artery infarction1Convulsions1
Chest pain4Chronic obstructive asthma1
Chronic pain1Disordered urea cycle metabolism1
Chest wall contusion1Diabetes type 2 w/complications3
Coronary artery disease1Encephalitis1
Diabetes type 1 w/complications1Fall3
Eye swelling/mass1Fistula (persistent post-op)1
Failure to thrive1HIV1
Fall3Idiopathic neuropathy1
Fetal jaundice1Intracerebral hemorrhage1
Fever2Motor vehicle collision1
Gall bladder calculi1Neurohypophysis1
Intracerebral hemorrhage1Poison (antihypertensive agent)1
Laryngeal spasm1Psychosis1
Lumbosacral neuritis1Psychosis (severe recurrent)1
Ovarian cyst1Rheumatic heart failure1
Poison (exhaust gas, anesthesia)2Septicemia2
Riding animal accident1Subarachnoid hemorrhage1
Skin sensation disturbances1Syncope + collapse2
Syncope and collapse1Trauma (falling object)1
Tietze’s disease1
Transcerebral ischemia1
Urinary tract infection1
Vertigo1