Risk of prolonged hospital stay
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Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota
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Represents another children’s hospital
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A prolonged length of stay may indicate complications. The best way to understand the risk of a prolonged hospital stay is the length of stay ratio. The length of stay ratio compares how long a patient stays in the hospital (actual) to how long they are expected to stay given the severity of their illness. A ratio of 1.0 means a patient’s stay is exactly as long as expected.
Children's actual to expected ratio is less than 1.0. This means that Children’s patients are going home sooner than expected. In fact, Children's has the lowest length of stay ratio among its peers.
This measure uses data from the Pediatric Health Information System (PHIS). PHIS is a comprehensive comparative pediatric database of 42 children's hospitals that evaluates clinical and financial details of more than six million patient cases.
This measure is updated quarterly.
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