Table 5a.
Factors most frequently occurring among the 236 sets of discriminatory factors for predicting <72-hour returns for acuity-level 1 patients at Hospital 1, and those most frequently occurring among the 42 sets of discriminatory factors for predicting <72-hour returns for acuity-level 1 patients at Hospital 2.
| Hospital 1 | Hospital 2 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Factor Name | Frequency (%) | Factor Name | Frequency (%) | |
| Patient diagnosis | 230 (97.46%) | Time when the patient arrived until he/she got a bed | 27 (64.29%) | |
| Time when the patient arrived until he/she got a bed | 228 (96.61%) | Number of beds reserved at time | 24 (57.14%) | |
| Payor type | 180 (76.27%) | Patient chief complaint | 24 (57.14%) | |
| Patient chief complaint | 178 (75.42%) | Physician extender (ie. Nurse Practitioners or others). | 22 (52.38%) | |
| Number of residents in ED | 129 (54.66%) | Month | 16 (38.1%) | |
| Number of medical students in ED | 106 (44.92%) | If the patient received a radiologic test | 12 (28.57%) | |
| If the patient received a CT scan for his/her head | 80 (33.9%) | Patient’s weight | 11 (26.19%) | |
| If the patient had a rapid strep test | 77 (32.63%) | If the patient received Chest X-Ray | 11 (26.19%) | |
| Number or waiting patients divided by the number of available beds29 | 66 (27.97%) | |||