Background: Length of stay (LOS) outliers are a focus of cost and resource utilization for hospitals in the United States. Limited research has been done to characterize outliers, risk factors, and barriers to discharge. Methods: We conducted a case-control study of inpatient admissions to the general medicine service line between September 2015 and August 2016. [...]

Background: Recently enacted policies in multiple states have placed restrictions on opioid prescription days given the risk of development of chronic opioid therapy with prolonged opioid prescriptions. However, there are still patients who receive an excessive number of opioid prescription days after discharge from the hospital. We studied this population retrospectively to understand which patient-level [...]