Epilepsy monitoring unit length of stay

Abstract With an increasing focus on quality metrics, hospital length of stay (LOS) in the U.S. has garnered significant scrutiny. To help establish evidence-based benchmarks for epilepsy monitoring unit (EMU) metrics, we evaluated the impact of multiple variables on LOS through a retrospective analysis of 905 consecutive inpatient adult EMU admissions. The most common reasons for admission were event characterization (n = 494), medication adjustment (n = 189), and presurgical evaluation (n = 96). Presurgical evaluations experienced a longer average LOS (aLOS) of 7.1 days versus patients admitted for other indications (p