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* refers as Within Hospital Medicine Ward Cumulative LOS  
* refers as Within Hospital Medicine Ward Cumulative LOS  
** this is the sum of all Medicine wards' LOS_Record within one Hospital admission per hospital. It is important to determine correctly the different wards the patient stayed within a hospital admission and this is done by using the time gaps between records and/or the locations the patient came from and went to. If a patient stayed in more than one Medicine wards during his hospital admission until he left the hospital, then all his wards' LOS_Record were added.  
** this is the sum of all Medicine wards' LOS_Record within one Hospital admission per hospital. It is important to determine correctly the different wards the patient stayed within a hospital admission and this is done by using the time gaps between records and/or the locations the patient came from and went to. If a patient stayed in more than one Medicine wards during his hospital admission until he left the hospital, then all his wards' LOS_Record were added.  
**The summary reports  separate those who left the hospital or died  and those who went to another service  within the hospital.  
**The summary reports  separate those who left the hospital or died  and those who went to another service  within the hospital.
{{Discuss | who = Julie | question =
* would this be simply LOS per profile now that we do [[PatientFollow Project]]? Or would you have linked together e.g. a med pt prior to ICU/un-collected ward stay and then again after?
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===LOS_Elapse_Ward1_Hosp===
===LOS_Elapse_Ward1_Hosp===
*refers to the length of stay from the FIRST ward admission until the last discharge date during one hospital admission per hospital.  
*refers to the length of stay from the FIRST ward admission until the last discharge date during one hospital admission per hospital.