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Free text: Usually used in aggregate form as "per location" and/or "per reporting timeframe", e.g. month/quarter/year x Ward/Unit x Hospital. ==Significance== Length of stay (LOS) is influenced by many factors, but safe and effective care should result in shorter [[:Category: Length of stay | length of stay]]. ==Start Dates== *Oct 2003 to Sept 2020 - each record is per ward stay. A hospital stay may have one or more individual ward stay (or records). *Starting Oct 2020- each record is a continuous stay in any locations under Medicine service (or one Medicine episode) - see [[Definition of a Medicine Program Admission]]. If the patient is transferred to another service and comes back to Medicine service, this is a new record. A hospital stay may have one or more Medicine episodes. ==Sampling Plan / Procedure== ===Inclusion Criteria=== All Medicine admissions - see [[Definition of a Medicine Program Admission]] ===Exclusion Criteria=== None ===Frequency=== * Reported the admission to the Medicine [[Service tmp entry|Service]] ends, ie when there is a [[Dispo DtTm]](Discharge Date) * Monthly, quarterly, year based on discharged date of [[Dispo DtTm]] ==Definition and Derivation== * Calculate the LOS for each record - refer to [[LOS Per Record]] * Per patient, identify the records having the same [[Visit Admit DtTm]]. This implies same hospital stay or hospitalization. * Per patient per hospitalization, sum up all the [[LOS Per Record]] ** It is possible that the same patient may have one or more hospitalization within the same reporting time frame. ==Data Source== * For dates refer to [[LOS Per Record]] * For hospitalization date - use [[Visit Admit DtTm]] * For patient identifier - use either [[Person ID]], [[Chart]], [[PHIN]] == Reported as== * Mean, median, sum, minimum, maximum (in days) per site and/or time frame * N is the number of patient's hospitalizations * Counts and % of N based on LOS groups (<1,1-5,6-10,11-15-16-20,>20) for a given reporting time frame and/or site ==SAS Program== S:\MED\MED_CCMED\Julie\SAS_CFE\Med_reports\1_prepMed_startingJan2021_26Aug2021.sas S:\MED\MED_CCMED\Julie\SAS_CFE\Med_reports\3_CFE_MedReportPart1_startingJan2021_16aug2021.sas == Related Articles == {{Related Articles}} [[Category:Length of stay]] [[Category:Reporting]] [[Category:Multiple Encounter]]