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Over a 4-year period,414 Medicare patients demonstrated a steady decline of initial hospital length stay from 7.0 to 4.6 days.During this same period of time,there was a decline in total hospital charges from$14 076 to$10 740 per patient.This represented a total dollar savings in charges of$1 621 296($453 000 per year).The mortality rate for 1994 was 4.6%with 46.5%of survivors discharged to home,16.9%to acute rehabilitation,and 32. 6%to nursing homes.The implementation of a multidisciplinary acute stroke program,decreased length of stay and hospitalization costs of Medicare patients. |
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