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*Dr. Allan Garland and Julie met March 12, 2014 and identifed the different types of LOS currently calculated and reported as well as assigned a name to each one accordingly.

=== [[~~LOS_Record~~]] ===

=== [[LOS Per Record]] ===

=== LOS per Critical Care Unit ===

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=== LOS Per Medicine Continuous Ward Stays ===

* 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 Per 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 Per Record]] were added.

**The summary reports separate those who left the hospital or died and those who went to another service within the hospital.

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 *Dr. Allan Garland and Julie met March 12, 2014 and identifed the different types of LOS currently calculated and reported as well as assigned a name to each one accordingly.
-=== [[LOS_Record]] ===
+=== [[LOS Per Record]] ===
 === LOS per Critical Care Unit ===
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 === LOS Per Medicine Continuous Ward Stays ===
 * 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 Per 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 Per Record]] were added.
 **The summary reports  separate those who left the hospital or died  and those who went to another service  within the hospital.
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