Marks M K, Lovejoy F H, Rutherford P A, Baskin M N
Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia.
Qual Manag Health Care. 1997 Fall;6(1):14-22. doi: 10.1097/00019514-199706010-00002.
A short stay unit (SSU) was opened at the Children's Hospital, Boston, with the aim of better fulfilling the needs of pediatric patients with straightforward diagnoses. Using historical and simultaneous comparison groups and controlling for disease severity, the opening of the SSU led to a decrease of between 16.5 and 28.4 percent in the mean length of stay for asthma patients without any increase in the rate of hospital readmission.
波士顿儿童医院开设了一个短期住院单元（SSU），目的是更好地满足诊断明确的儿科患者的需求。通过使用历史对照组和同期对照组，并控制疾病严重程度，SSU的开设使哮喘患者的平均住院时间缩短了16.5%至28.4%，且医院再入院率没有任何增加。
