Examination of length of stay differences of vehicle injury and other separations within diagnosis related groups

The objective of the study was to examine length of stay differences within AN-DRG's between separations for vehicle injury and separations for other reasons. Data was collected on 75,877 separations over the period July-December 1992 from six South Australian hospitals, selected as being reasonably representative of Australian hospitals providing services to vehicle injury cases across a range of different settings (i.e. city/country, teaching/nonteaching).