Screening for older inpatients at risk for long length of stay: which clinical tool to use?
Olivier BeauchetShek FungCyrille P LaunayLiam Anders Cooper-BrownJonathan AfilaloPaul HerbertMarc AfilaloJulia ChabotPublished in: BMC geriatrics (2019)
The 6-item BGA risk levels were associated with LOS, low risk-level being associated with short LOS and high-risk level with long LOS, but no association was reported with the PRISMA-7 risk levels. Both tools had poor performance criteria for long LOS, suggesting that they cannot be used as prognostic tools with current scientific knowledge.