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Free text: Usually used in aggregate form as "per location" and/or "per timeframe", e.g. month/quarter/year x Ward/Unit x Hospital. ===QI domain=== *[[QualityDomain::Efficient]] ==Significance== Length of stay (LOS) is an important measure for utilization purposes and is frequently used as a measure of ICU resource use. LOS is influenced by many factors but safe and effective critical care should result in a shorter ICU length of stay. ==Sampling Plan / Procedure== All ICU admissions - see [[Definition of a Critical Care Program Admission]] . If transfers occur within ICUβs within the same facility eg. MICU, SICU and IICU, this will be reported as 3 individual length of stays and not one cumulative LOS. ===Inclusion Criteria=== Include all admissions to ICU being taken care by the same service wherever the patients are physically present (in a bed in the unit or in a borrowed bed in another location). See [[Definition of a Critical Care Program Admission]] for further information about which patients are included. ===Exclusion Criteria=== None ===Frequency=== * Reported when patient had been discharged out of ICU. * Reported on a monthly or quarterly basis as an average and median value * Reported as total value when used as denominator in the calculation of other indicators. ==Definition and Derivation== * ICU LOS = ICU discharge date/time β ICU admit date/time (expressed in days) where ICU discharge date/time = [[Dispo_DtTm]] and ICU admit date/time = [[Admit DtTm]] * Average ICU LOS (in days to 1 decimal place) * Median ICU LOS (in days to 1 decimal place) * Total ICU LOS (in days to 1 decimal place) ===Numerator=== For Average ICU LOS, the numerator is Sum of Length of ICU stay of all discharges ===Denominator=== For Average ICU LOS, the denominator is Number of discharges ==Data Sources== * [[Admit DtTm]] and [[Dispo DtTm]] * Can also be taken from the [[Created_Variables_CC 2021 table]] of [[CFE]] ==SAS Program== The SAS program to get the LOS is {{S:\MED\MED_CCMED}}Julie\SAS_CFE\CFE_macros\logphi.sas and datetimes.sas ==Report Users== * Critical Care Directors, Critical Care Unit Managers and WRHA Outcome Improvement Team Committee * Shared Health Decision Support Officer for Critical Care Dashboard (HSC only) == Related articles == {{Related Articles}} [[Category:Length of stay]] [[Category:Created Variables]]