Association Between Emergency Physician Length of Stay Rankings and Patient Characteristics.

Cindy Y ChangChristopher W BaughCalvin A BrownScott G Weiner

Published in: Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (2020)

Length of stay was significantly associated with patient characteristics, and accounting for variation in patient characteristics resulted in substantial reordering of relative physician rankings by LOS. Comparisons of emergency physicians by LOS that do not account for patient characteristics should be reconsidered.

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