rural hospital

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We believe that a clinical pathway targeting appropriateness of hospital admission in rural hospitals and length of stay in urban hospitals would be beneficial.
In contrast, after adjusting for other factors, length of hospital stay is greater in urban and regional hospitals compared to rural hospitals.
Thirty-day re-admissions were higher in rural hospitals compared with all other hospital types.
Once admitted however, length of stay was greater in urban and regional hospitals compared to rural hospitals.
Our study suggests the use of clinical pathway decision aids at the time of hospital admission may be reasonable even for smaller rural hospitals.
In the rural area, the participating institutions included the three rural hospitals and four health-care centres.
Second, rural hospitals typically have lower costs per day than large urban centers.
The rural hospitals and health centres refer more serious cases to the district hospital for care.
As the managed care movement intensifies, the integration of corporate and community norms with the goals of patient care may become issues that rural hospitals must face.
The rural hospital's economic constraints are complicated by the inability to reach the economies of scale realized by larger hospitals, rural - urban payment differentials 6 and long underserved, high-risk populations.
After adjusting for comorbidity, the relative risk for a longer length of stay was 22 % greater in regional hospitals and about 30 % greater in urban hospitals compared to rural hospitals.
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